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Im interested to see how they age(white to newsprint ) and fade(red to orange/brown)
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Doug L

Doug,

Here's a quick example. These photos are of the same snake, taken roughly 1.5 years apart. This particular animal has not had the overall wash of dark pigment along it's sides, creating the grayish coloration we call "news printing", but has developed a black stippling over a clean ground color. The overall effect, in my opinion, is quite attractive.

1.5 years later (Photo by Dell):

That snake seems to be retaining the red.
How old is it in the second pic?
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Doug L

The animals is about 2.5 years old in the second photo. Some of them really hold their red, while others fade significantly.

This big guy is super faded:

Yellowstone Co., MT (sorry for the blurry pic)

These next two hatchling animals show the variation from a single hillside:

Yellowstone Co., MT (Photo by the Dellster)

When this 05 female gentilis hatched she was as white as snow and not one letter of news.You can see she has retained the white but had the news delivered.Her red turned to a real nice orange with minimal print.She was the brightest of the clutch

This pic shows her gravid this past spring

Here is a pic of the gravid wc she came from

This snake btw was the one from the lost and found post that was missing since the 05/06 winter and refound this year laying on an unsprung rat trap out in my unattached unheated garage.
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Doug L

Killer looking animals, and an equally amazing story. Man, that's one tough girl, huh?!

-Cole

that is a super comparison, love that high creamy white animal, but they both rock!
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Todd Hughes

Thanks, Todd! They're always a joy to see.

-Cole

Here's a couple.

As a neonate, lipstick red saddles, all white background. Cherry co. NE

As an adult, still very white w/ little to no newsprinting, terra-cotta saddles w/ a bit of erasing in a few of the saddles.

Another Cherry co. NE, neonate.

As adult still very white background, a little more of an orange terra-cotta saddles then the above Pale, no erasing in saddles.

Another Cherry co. milk. I wish I still had photos of her as a younger neonate. She was very small, and held quite a bit of white to her. But soon tipped up, as you can see.

As an adult the tipping has seemed to stop filling in, and the saddles have lighted in w/ a little more terra-cotta coloring.

If I get more time, I'll post a few more.
-Dell

Cherry co., Cole's collection.

Wow Dell, those two adults you posted are the cleanest adult pales I have ever seen. Now I know why multistrata is your favorite! Holy crap!

Dave
DNS Reptiles

~ZF

Very nice
thx Dell
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Doug L

Zikes!,...those are insane pretty man!, what are you tryin' to do?, force me into getting some N. American stuff too?..LOL!

Maybe in the future, I'll have to see into it.

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

Some fancy lookin' critter's there, Dell...as per usual!

Did you catch that show I told you about? I'm feeling a little more spry today, and may have finally kicked that nasty bug I had. If you're up for an early smoke-out, I'm in.

-Cole

L. t. multistrata - Pennington Co., SD