Charcoal Corn Snakes for sale in the UK
A corn snake with the Charcoal morph loses its yellow, orange and red tones to show only smooth, low-contrast greys and black. Because the two become hard to separate as they grow, a faint blue mark above each eye on hatchlings is the clearest way to tell a young Charcoal from an Anerythristic.
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Charcoal corn snakes available now
About the Charcoal gene
This recessive mutation, Charcoal, removes yellow, orange and red pigment from a corn snake. It leaves the snake in shades of grey and black. People buy it for the monochrome, stripped-back look and for what it builds into. When paired with other recessive genes, it makes some of the best-known corn snake combos.
Appearance
A Charcoal is distinct from a standard Anerythristic because it has no red or orange on the body and generally lacks brown, featuring medium grey saddles on a lighter grey background. While the head usually matches the body, it can be a shade paler at times. A light pink blush might show on the cheeks, and a trace of pastel yellow sits at the neck sometimes. The eyes are black, blue or silver around a black pupil. A faint blue mark sits directly above each eye in hatchlings where the eyeball shows faintly through the scales. Because it is hard to tell the two apart as adults, this mark is the surest way to tell a young Charcoal from an Anerythristic. The tail matches the body, and the belly checkers are black in hatchlings before they settle to brown or grey at maturity.
Genetics
Because Charcoal is recessive, a snake with only one copy looks like a normal corn snake and two copies are needed to show it. The carrier forms are 50% Het Charcoal, 66% Het Charcoal, Het Charcoal and Pos Het Charcoal. The hobby also calls it Anery B, and it sits in no allelic complex. Charcoal is one of the foundation genes for corn snake combos: paired with Amelanistic it makes Blizzard, with Lava Diamond, with Diffused Pewter and with Hypomelanistic Phantom. In 1984, Kathy Love first produced it from a wild-caught Florida female that was originally taken for an Anerythristic.