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DonSoderberg
at Wed Jul 2 19:19:16 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DonSoderberg ]
You cannot visually identify an adult sunrise corn. There is no phenotype for them, UNLESS . . . there are colorless scales on your adult. I have personally only seen this on the motlies and striped variations of this mutation, but it may be on non-stripes/motlies too. If so, you're looking for random areas on the snake where there used to be color, but now there is none. Scales that used to be orange are now white, and they get more and more of these each time they shed. This is not calico (not the blister-disease calico anyway). Again, if you don't have an albino striped or motley, you're not likely to see this. On striped and motley forms with this mutation, the anomalous areas tend to follow the pattern. On some of my striped ones, it appeared as though the snake had successfully squeezed out of it's cage, allowing many of the dorsal scales to be scraped off and replaced with colorless scar tissue. Another confusing twist is that it's not on ALL representatives of the mutation.
SO, I could send you a picture of a richly colored amel and tell you it was sunrise. Nobody could challenge that (except through breeding trials). Identifying one without the missing pigment anomalies would be like saying you can visually tell which of your common snakes are het for amelanism. There are no visual markers for such.
South Mountain Reptiles
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Pix not necessary . . . - DonSoderberg, Wed Jul 2 19:19:16 2008