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Well there seems to have been some discussion (uh-hum) with regards to a pair of rather red balls on the classifieds. Now everyone here seems to think they are fake. Personally I've never seen a dyed snake but I have to wonder how you'd manage to colour every part of the snake as evenly as the pics show.

Now whilst doing fieldwork in the Dominican Republic I came across many erythristic Epicrates striatus. They really remind me of the red balls. I mean we all know what a normal striatus looks like, but believe me, you'd die (no pun intended) if you saw the reds and oranges shown in some striatus out there.

Here's one as food for thought. And there was no Gatorade in sight!

yes there are hypererythristic animals....

my brother in-law brought home and gave me a garter snake once that was the same color as the boa you posted........only one I ever saw.......he claims there are alot of this color "up in the mountains" (PA).........

there are hypererythristic leopard geckos.........

there are hypererythristic garters that are really red....flames...blaize flames....(check out scott feltzers and molekings.com sites...)...

it is possible to get orange royal pythons......we already see yellow ones and chocolate ones etc etc...

I hope they do exsist.......wouldn't that be kool ....

JYReptiles

The 'blaze phase' Goini kingsnakes. Of course, they just retain the red that they're born with instead of losing it like most Goin's do.

I was thinking the same thing. Erythristic is seen in Boa constrictor all the time.