Anery

Anery is keeper shorthand for an anerythristic corn snake, most often the Type A anery line. The morph reduces or removes the red and orange pigments that give wild corn snakes their warm color, leaving a pattern of charcoal, gray, silver, black, and white. Many develop some yellow along the neck or sides as they mature, which is normal for this gene rather than a fault. Anery combines with amel to make snow and with hypomelanistic lines to produce ghost-type appearances, so it is common in both single-morph collections and multi-gene breeding projects.

Care is unchanged from a normal corn snake, and color should not be used as a shortcut for judging health. A well-started anery hatchling should feed consistently, shed in complete pieces, and have clear eyes and a clean vent after the shed cycle. Keepers usually house them singly in escape-resistant enclosures with hides at both ends of a temperature gradient. Breeders need to distinguish anery from charcoal or cinder through records or test breeding, because several gray corn snake morphs can look alike to buyers.

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