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ShadedRain — Blood Red Cornsnake
Published: 2007-01-23 22:36:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 490; Favourites: 8; Downloads: 3
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About 2 years old. She's got decent length and is bulking out nicely. She should become nearly patternless red.Related content
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is that really a bloodred? a bloodred cornsnake has got a really dark red,
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A blood red corn snake is a normal corn snake that has been selectively bred to have what is called "diffusion." A trait that causes the red color to "bleed" out into the background color. The black also dissipates during this process. Ideally, a blood red ends up as a solid red snake with a white belly, but as I'm sure you're aware, not everything turns out to be ideal. Some blood reds don't fully lose their pattern - most in fact, have traces of the saddles if you look closely and a lot of them have orange on their bellies. This is what caused people to try for hypomelanistic and amelanistic blood reds, but with less or total lack of black pigment, the snake tends to take on more of a crimson or orange look that a lot of keepers find undesirable. You can tell a blood red from hatch by the lack of saddle pattern on the sides.
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okay, i only saw bloodred cornsnakes which were totally dark red
your snake is beautiful!
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Some of those pictures on the web are altered in photoshop too.
I breed corns so I have to know what I'm talking about.
Thanks.
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