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rtdunham
at Sat Apr 24 14:18:37 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by rtdunham ]
actually, most -- "classic" -- nelsoni have wide red rings about as wide as the combined triad adjoining them. Nelsoni don't usually have a lot of crossovers, the way mountain kings do--almost characteristically so, in the "classic" wild mountain king. But a few nelsoni do have somecrossovers (I don't remember ever seeing one with as many as the albino in the pic has though). The key to remember is that BLACK crossovers are WHITE crossovers on amels, or albinos: instead of black obscuring the red, white does. So the amel in the pic simply has a lot of crossovers.
That makes it unusual, and interesting. The triangles laterally are nice.
It would be real interesting to see pix of the parents and of siblings to this snake. I don't think the original poster here had any doubts of the purity of the animal. In a vacuum--i.e., without that assurance--it would be reasonable to wonder whether this animal was produced from hybrids from an albino nelsoni (or....) x a mtn king, which would be another explanation for the introduction of crossovers.
But lastly, the question of striped nelsoni was raised. I prdouced some "striped-aberrant" nelsoni for a few years, ending a couple years ago (sold the project). I preferred adding "aberrant" because none were perfectly striped, but many had 50% or more of body length striped, and on others a sort of dot-and-dash pattern created a striped effect, like the snake in the picture. An amel version of one of these animals would not look like the albino posted in this thread, of course. But with the striped-aberrant changes occurring in what were from all accounts pure nelsoni, it's reasonable to expect other pattern aberrancies--like the crossovers--too.
peace
terry
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no conspiracy, simpler explanation - rtdunham, Sat Apr 24 14:18:37 2004