Parents of this 2019 aberrant Scaleless Amel corn are a male het for Striped Butter and a female het for Saffron (Amel Sunkissed Caramel). This type of aberrant pattern is not uncommon among Scaleless corns, and the yellow markings are are surely inherited from the Caramel gene that both parents shared one copy of. Not the bony look that is also commonly obvious in young (and sometimes older) Scaleless corns. Scaled corns don’t show the ribs like this 5-DAY-old because their scale layer is too thick.
note: ALL Scaleless corns in the hobby toDAY (including SCALED corns that are carriers of the Scale-less mutation–aka Het Scaleless), AND even possible-hets are descendants of the original pairing of a Corn Snake to an Emory’s Ratsnake (aka: Great Plains Ratsnake). Therefore, all Scaleless corns (and their scaled relatives) are inter-species hybrids.