Corn Snake morph
Corn Snake (Pantherophis guttatus)
Homozygous Kastanie. Rich chestnut-brown background with dark chocolate saddle marks. Warm, earth-toned appearance. Name is German for "chestnut."
Produces rich chestnut-brown coloration replacing the typical orange-red background. The name comes from the German word for "chestnut." Background color shifts to warm, deep chestnut-brown tones. Saddle marks typically appear a darker chocolate-brown. The overall impression is a warm, earth-toned animal. Distinct from Caramel (warmer/yellower) and wild-type. Independent locus confirmed through test breeding records.
How to identify it: Rich chestnut-brown background, dark chocolate saddle marks. Warm earth tones throughout. Distinct from the cooler gray of Anery or the yellower tone of Caramel.
Kastanie follows a recessive inheritance pattern, carried on the Kastanie allele (locus Kas).
Because Kastanie is recessive, an animal needs two copies of the allele to show the trait visually. An animal with a single copy is called het kastanie (heterozygous). A het animal looks normal but carries the gene, so pairing two het kastanie animals produces, on average, one in four visual kastanie offspring.
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