06/13/2025
Three years in a row now one specific pair has produced what I currently believe to be a mutation of the Cinnamon gene. I also believe this mutation is acting in a co-dominant (I think I’m using that term correctly but I’m no scientist) fashion with the Anaconda gene.
This gene shares many similarities to Cinnamon but there is some difference too.
The snake hatches out quite dark and lightens as well as pixelates as it sheds, the same as Cinnamon
The brown ones have black eyes. However the Albino has red and Axanthic has dark but not black eyes.
The head stamp is solid with a small simple band
The belly has a blueish grey tint and white mottling
The biggest difference and reason why I think it is a mutation is because classic cinnamons still have a distinct pattern and saddles. Every single one that I have produced have no saddles and the pattern is reduced to two stripes on either side of the dorsal and sometimes faint spots on the sides. In my 2023 adult these have faded and are barely visible now. I believe it is only expressing with Conda and the two together are creating an overall patternless snake, much like a homozygous conda (superconda). This also makes sense to me since only the mom has conda and I believe, but have not proven, that this new gene is coming from the father. Statistics wise if this gene were acting on it’s own I would think I’d see more of them rather than the scattering and low numbers I have as of yet and I would also have produced more “classic” cinnamon with pattern.
For clarity, this is a theory I have. I could be totally overthinking it and they are just weird cinnamons. I had hoped to learn more from the offspring of my 2023 male but unfortunately he missed the females window. I am also suspicious it may be s*x linked as all seven I have hatched so far are male. I hope I’m wrong on that but time will tell. I believe there are at minimum two other people who have produced similar animals, and I hope it can be proved out as a new line of Cinnamon.
