"Now, am I understanding you right, that if it has a cream belly it is not as pure as it should be?"

No, the cream has NOTHING to do with their "purity" at all. That is very typical for the purest wild Desert phase Cal. king to display as well. All he was saying is that over the years many breeders were working to clean the yellow up as much as possible by selective-breeding to the whitest of the whitest Cal. kings. They are not white or cream/beige because they are crossed or hybridized, or than a beige/cream colored belly is any less "pure" of a Cal. king at all. Just variations is all. The more closer to the inland desrt they range, the whiter they naturally become, but most will STILL generally have a light cream belly. The 50-50 desert phase I posted below took me ALL afternoon to sift through looking for the cleanest, whitest one I could possibly find at the huge Orlando Expo back in 1994-95. It took some real looking to do back then too. She was pure white on her belly which is TOUGH to find....period! But no more "pure" than one that is a tad beige/cream unless it was hybridized..LOL!


~Doug
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