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This snake is only 17" long and already has such a red belly. Don't know what's influencing it. Found him underneath the neighbor's basketball hoop. That's only about 10-15 feet from where I found another corn, and his belly at 3+ feet has no red on it at all. Is it normal to have wide variations in appearence in a small area? I'm not gonna outrule 'escaped' influences just yet - Years ago, I found a all-white snake (like a leucistic tx rat or blizzard corn) on this road, a few months ago found a run-over blood python about 200-300ft away, and I hear there's an iguana running loose around a neighborhood nearby. Oh well.

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-audri
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it was het for bloodred, I certainly wouldn't see anything on that belly that would dissuade me. Mind you, I'm not saying it IS het for bloodred. I'm just saying that it looks like the hets for that morph I have seen more times than I could count.

Should be fun test breeding him/her! Good luck!
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Darin Chappell
Hillbilly Herps
PO Box 254
Rogersville, MO 65742

I thought you where going to say I have seen many normal corns with that orange belly. I have two normals that looked like this. No Bloodred invluence in them. I think actually that a pure black and white belly is quite rare. On normal corns that is.

Marcel
Marcel's snake page

I wasn't basing what I said on the orange coloration on the belly. You're right that such coloration is common on normals of all types.

Instead, I was looking at the "clear stipe" down the middle of the belly where the black checks do not come together over most of the ventral side. THAT is why I think it MIGHT have some bloodred influence.
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Darin Chappell
Hillbilly Herps
PO Box 254
Rogersville, MO 65742

Sounds like an interesting neighborhood with that many herps free roaming around. =P

Some snakes in my Miami line also show this infusion of red on thier bellies. I have noticed when I bred a male with this trait to a female without it, most of the hatchlings didn't have it, but a few did. Thier bellies were much redder than thier siblings. My hubby brought home the work camera again so I could probably get some pics by Mon or Tues. But since I have seen in clutchmates that some had this trait and some didn't, it doesn't suprise me that you found another one nearby that didn't have it.
Carol