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29″ female 2012 corn snake Het for Palmetto. Her $3,000.00 price includes 2013 hatchling females that are het for Palmetto are still in stock for $2,000.00 each.
After noting that most of the Palmetto Hets have a phenotype that is decidedly not like that of wild-type corns, I agree with Vin Russo and Rich Hume that the inheritance of the Palmetto mutation is probably incomplete dominant over wild-type. This is not uncommon in white snakes of other species (having a largely identifiable phenotype that is not like their wild counterparts–and of course–not like the white homozygote mutants). Most corns with one mutation gene copy (aka: hets) in mutations that are recessive to wild-type generally look like “wild” corns. Most of the Het Palmettos look like the picture above; more like Hypo mutants than wild-type corns. That being cited, it does not change when owners of Palmettos will be able to reproduce visual Palmettos – in terms of which familial generation. When you breed any other corn snake to a Palmetto the F1 generation will contain NO visual Palmettos unless the “other” corn has one Palmetto gene copy (is HET for Palmetto). Like waiting for target product when breeding mutations that are recessive to wild-type, it will take two generations to get Palmetto homozygotes (visuals).