guyergenetics
06-16-2009, 08:34 PM
My female Silverqueen layed 13 eggs on 06-14-09. I bred her to a Ghost that I produced. We'll have to wait and see what the Ghost babies look like.
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Video:
YouTube - Silverqueen Corn Laying Eggs
I know. I know. I miscounted on the video. That was #8 coming out of her. That's what I get for counting via looking at the small screen on the back of the camera.
Total # of eggs: 154
xanaxez
06-16-2009, 08:43 PM
Congrats and good luck. Nice video
anendeloflorien
06-16-2009, 11:36 PM
That's some cool stuff man! Silverqueens are absolutely beautiful IMO :D So if she was bred to a ghost wouldn't the babies all be just het anery, hypo and silverqueen?
Sputnik
06-17-2009, 04:37 AM
Out of curiosity, what is a Silverqueen?
JChandler
06-17-2009, 07:30 AM
I know it is a ghost (anery x hypo) but I know it isn't the standard hypo lines that make it....
norsmis
06-17-2009, 12:30 PM
Silverqueens are a variant of ghost corns. Here is a write up from Rich at Serpenco about the history of them:
Silverqueen Ghost Corns
A very interesting variation of the Ghost Corn. Different enough to warrant a separate name for this cultivar.
I have to be honest that I had been reluctant to offer this particular cultivar for sale as a separately named cultivar, yet it is definitely substantially different looking from other lines of Ghosts I have worked with. This line originated from some Miami Phase stock from a LONG time ago that also produced a variant of Hypomelanism that I refer to internally as my 'Scarlet Corns'. Out of this same genetic stock came a line of Candy Canes that has gone a long way to helping me eliminate the orange background coloration, and has provided many animals that exhibit the 'frosted' look. So this line has a lot going for it.
Like the name implies, most of these are very light silvery gray in color with slightly darker colored blotching. In some specimens it appears that the yellow coloration so typical in nearly all other lines of ghosts is completely absent. Some will also exhibit the 'frosted' look in that the blotches will have lighter centers than the outside edges. There are also a few (which are mostly keepers at this point) that appear to have patternless silver gray heads and unpatterned abdomens. There is no telling how many offshoot variants that might come from this line.
Prior to the year 2000, EVERY one I have produced in the past has been marked as a keeper. I am now producing way too many to possibly keep, and yet feel they are different enough that I certainly don't want to sell them as just run of the mill Ghost Corns. So there you have it. Breeding trials I did in 2000 has shown me that this is genetically standard 'A' Anerythrism and Hypomelanism, but there is something different in them that presents a rather interesting looking variant of the Ghost. I will be sticking with the new name, justifying it by the argument that they are every bit as different from the typical Ghost as a Candy Cane or Fluorescent Orange is from a standard Amelanistic corn. I have produced a BUNCH of them over the years and seen enough Ghost corns to know that these are definitely something different to look at.
Quoted from http://www.serpenco.com/shop/customer/product.php?productid=16435
guyergenetics
06-23-2009, 11:11 PM
Yep, Rich said it. Think of them as a line bred looking Ghost kinda like what we see with Reverse Okeetees and whatnot over on the amel side of things.
All of the babies from this pairing should be Ghosts. Unless the Silverqueen is het Amel (doughtful on that). All of my first generation Ghosts including the father of this clutch are het Amel.
Chris
06-23-2009, 11:25 PM
Wow silverqueen for a morph is a badass name. Oh BTW, Congrats
Be sure to post the Silverqueen hatchlings.:rockon:
guyergenetics
06-25-2009, 10:00 AM
Oh, I'll post the hell out of them. I know that these will be Ghosts, but what will they look like?
Will some of them have the Silverqueen look? Will this be an improvement to my already stellar Ghost line or a step backwards?
Won't know until the babies are here.