The female is a non-locality snake that I got at a pet shop where I used to work about 8 years ago. She is completely speckled now with one yellow speck per scale. She was slightly banded as a baby but the bands did not connect in a chain pattern. She became gravid last year without a male around and was eggbound. This year, Brad Lee was nice enough to let us breed her to one of his locality males... Kansas or LA... Maybe Brad can chime in here or I will get back to you. The adult male did have the slightest banding pattern.

This is the frist year I bred speckleds, and was really surprised at their variability. Some are so busy that the banding is almost invisible, and one of them has a 3 scale wide chain pattern. It is more visable from the side, but they are so damn spastic it's hard to get a good picture.

Thanks for the response.
Tom Anderson

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