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I purchased this animal as an aberrant wild caught alterna. I have my doubts that it is a natural color phase and more likely a hybrid of some type. Have any of you seen an alterna with this much orange in it before? I'm going to attempt to include a pic of it in both natural light and flash photo. The Flash photo most accurately represents what it looks like in person. It's a male and about 40 inches long.

I have seen brown (orange diffused in the gray background) Alterna before. Especially from the Davis or Alpine area...

But that one is very orange.

I've had quite a few older snakes with that sort of orange "bleed through" into the gray. At least one Juno, a Davis, a River, etc. I've never seen that in the wild though.

Troy

yo, troy,
i found one like that a long time and 100 lbs ago.....right past the curve on the big hill......

yup it's an OLD snake. this usually happens with age.

Forky

i got lots of orange infused on me too

I am in agreement 100% with Troy and Lance. I have had alterna that bleed this orange and look very similar that were wc.

Wayne

Thanks to all. That certainly helps. Now I just need to find a female to pair up with him!

Did you get the locality data on him?

No I did not. Sorry.