This one involves a male purchased as a Pastel Motley and a female hypo that turned out to be het anerythristic.
When we purchased the male for my son I had not kept corns in several years and had been left behind in the cultivar developments. I asked the seller at the show exactly what it was genetically, since pastel didn't mean anything to me. He replied that it was a ghost corn with the motley trait.
I decided to get a hypo female last year just to do some breeding trials with this male. The idea was if I produced hypos, I would know for sure. The female unfortunately turned out to be het anerythristic so that further confused the issue. What ever happened to the ability to get a corn not het for anything?
Anyway, I have some similar questions regarding this pairing as I had for the last one. Knowing the changes a hatchling corn goes through with age, how obvious is the hypo trait at birth?
The breeding test at this point has shown me nothing I can be sure of.
Here's a few more pics of this group, again the hatchlings are 1 day old, and the male is in the very early stages of a shed cycle so he's a bit darker than his best color. I have given him a letter designation as I did with the others to attempt to keep a degree of order.
Male
Male closeup
2003 clutch (pic 1)
2003 clutch (pic 2)
2003 clutch (pic 3)
I didn't get any pictures of the female, she is hypo, that much I can tell.
I'd like to settle these issues, and figured my best bet was to get the input of people who are much more into corns than I. Until I went back to producing them last year, I hadn't bred any corns since the early 90s when all I had to worry about albino, anery, and snow haha. Was much simpler back then.