What does it mean for a snake to morph?

Question

Ive seen that a lot lately is that like something that happens when you breed them or is it your snake changing color or what?

Answer 1

"Morph" refers to the snakes color or pattern. For example I have 3 different morphs of corn snakes...an amelanistic, a butter motley, and a hypo lavendar. Here are more examples:

http://www.williswildlifeenterprises-cornsnakes.com/MorphGuideHome.html

Answer 2

i did the same thing when looking for snake morphs. It is very difficult to find ALL snake morphs, you may find a few websites with the basic morphs but breeders are developing their own morphs all the time, so to see all is pretty impossible lol. However i would like to give you one piece of advice. Breeding colour morphs weakens the snake as it is putting together genes that would normally die out, usually because they are coupled with genes that maximise little problems. this is fine when you are having a snake as a pet as they dont have to fend for themselves. However different colour morphs are easier to look after. For example, creamsicle and ghost corns can be difficult to get to eat porperly. There are probably other little quirks that go along with other morphs. I would recommend if you are a first time corn snake owner to look for miami, standard, amel or sunglow corn, as these are good strong feeders :) theres nothing stopping you from expanding your collection afterwards, as many corn snake keepers do! good luck with your corn snake :)

Answer 3

Kimbee is right about the definiton of what a morph is, but didn't mention that the color they're born is the color they will be for life. So don't expect a normal "brown" to change into one of the white, yellow, orange, or other colors. Morph here, just means "color variety".

Answer 4

i think it means skin sheeding