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These were produced from the breeding of 2 animals I received as hatchlings from Dave Doherty. They are 9 mile North Sanderson animals. They are siblings. I put them side by side so you can see the difference. You can go to the link or URL listed below, then scan down to the Sanderson animals. The parents are female #3 and Male #5. Click on the small image to enlarge the pictures. Thanks for asking Dan....Ric Blair

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Ric,
Wow! Very interesting. I noticed the adults some time ago on your site. Very interesting animals. How many in the clutch and how many exhibited the unusual color/possible mutation? Congrats on this animal and your recent Xmas find.
DB

Hey Doug,

It is definitely an Anery. There were 4 in the clutch. 3 nice orange and the nicer no orange....Ric Blair

WILD looking alterna Ric! How about posting pics of this years Xmas offspring? You must have gotten some gems out of that group!

Andrew

I'll give my opinion on what this snake is. It's clearly
anerythristic. The narrow black borders of the saddles are
not the result of any mutation. They are simply part of the
pattern of the snake. It's not unusual to see "pinstripe blairs"
from out there. I think if the anerythristic gene wasn't there,
the snake would look very similar to the one it's pictured with.

It's interesting how frequently the anery gene has popped up
in gray bands. It's shown up in Black Gap, Sanderson, 277,
a generic bloodline, and a separate alterna/mexicana bloodline,
and I may be forgetting another location.

Hypomelanism has shown up in Black Gap and whatever the locale is
of the rock-n-reptiles snake.

Still no amelanistics, piebalds, or leucistics in alterna.

--Dan