Thats a good point about those getting yelow with age.

Also as I meantioned before I have seen wild coughts from the intergrade zone between holbrooki and splendida that had intense

yellow under the black to the point of making the black look brown or almost a golden chocolate color in bright light. As I said most people looking at a normal one would think it is just a less attractive snake due to it looking les jet black.

And that brings me to this question Thomas, how would you know if you have seen a normal colored holbrooki with a yellow wash or not? Even if you did the yellow wash would be under the black as color is in layers. I dought the yellow snake is a hybrid.

Also if it was part cal king, the cal king influence should cause there to be a widening in the light color between the blotches. This should have shown in the offspring at least and should still be seen in the adult dispite the yellow wash you can still see were the speckles are. Eric

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