Here is the mom of those three. I found her in a pet store 7 years ago. I had hoped she might be a phantom so tried to arrange a breeding loan to a known white snake male but it took her a long time to decide to produce eggs. In 2007 she finally produced a clutch on a loan to Dan Garcia where about half the babies looked like her including the middle one in the picture in my above post. Dan's male was adherent and unproven too so not sure if he also contributed to the look which varied a bit between the non normals.

The other two are from an 2008 breeding loan of the same pet store female to Marshall Van Thorre using one of his Mojaves. The one on the left is a female that I believe is a Mojave Garcia. I'm not a very good photographer but in addition to the wide distance between light alien heads she has the same dark rich brown sides as the 07. The male on the right is likely just a Mojave as he doesn't have the same color but I'm holding out a little hope that his high white sides are a little Garcia peaking out as otherwise I don't have a male to breed back to mom to find out what the homozygous Garcia looks like.

I would have expected a PhantomMojave to be a white snake but suppose it will be a while yet before someone is working with both lines to put that to the test. Since the apparent Mojave Garcia isn't white I'm thinking Garcia probably isn't even in the white snake complex like I hoped.

Others have pointed out that the Garcia resembles chocolate and I have to agree but I don't think the belly is right. So, for now it's a project to figure out with my highest priority to get a male to breed back to mom and go for the homozygous.

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