Sunglow

Sunglow corn snakes are amelanistic corn snakes that have been selectively bred for strong orange and red color with little or no white edging around the blotches. Like other amel corns, they lack black pigment and usually have red or pink eyes, but the term sunglow is used for a look produced by line breeding rather than a separate, universally defined gene. Some breeders apply the name only to very clean, saturated animals, while others use it more loosely for bright amel stock.

Daily care is the same as for Pantherophis guttatus in general: secure housing, a warm side and cooler side, snug hides, fresh water, and a mouse-based diet. Their pale eyes do not make them fragile, though they should always have shaded retreats and should not be kept under harsh lights without cover. Breeding sunglows is mostly a matter of selection within amel lines, so offspring quality depends heavily on the parents rather than the label alone. A buyer looking for a breeding animal should ask for parent photos, hatch records, and any known recessive genes carried by the line. For a pet, a healthy feeder with calm handling response is more important than intense color.

Colors: Albino, Amel, Amelanistic, Anery, Anerythristic, Bloodred, Butter, Candy Cane, Caramel, Charcoal, Cinder, Creamsicle, Dilute, Fire, Ghost, Granite, Hypo, Lava, Lavender, Masque, Miami Phase, Motley, Normal, Okeetee, Opal, Palmetto, Pewter, Plasma, Reverse Okeetee, Scaleless, Snow, Stripe, Sunglow, Sunkissed, Tessera, Ultramel, Wild Type