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Ive had a few people say they thought she might be a GHOST so here is a pic of the shed (not a hypo)

Cool animal!. But the photo has so freakin much greenish cast to it, it's virtually impossible to tell what the true colors of the snake actually are.

Can you post some better pics??. From what I "think" I can make out there, it doesn't look to be a ghost though.

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

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

The second to the last pic didn't load correctly when I looked at it previously, but now I see that is much better than the other ones in depicting the animal's truer colors.

Well, it does look similar to a very dark ghost, but the odds of it being what is truly known to be a ghost(hypomelanism x anerythrism) is virtually slim to none.

It could easily be a very light anerythristic since it is a wild-caught, and there have been many of these anerythristics known from the southwestern portion of Florida.

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

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

It's really tough to tell from the one so-so pic, but the other possibility is it could possibly be a hypo-erythristic(very reduced red) animal. I don't know if that is a very slight rusty/red I'm seeing, or actually a brown though.

Some better sharp photos that really show the true coloration would really be more helpful though, as a little bit of color difference can make all the difference in the world when talking about any specific morph/mutation.

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

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

I dont have a verry good camera to work with, she doesnt show any red, the color is off in the pics, for the most part she resembels a anery but she is alot lighter in the sadles all the way down her body and the yellows in her neck arnt right, but the base color on her is verru dark on her last 1/3 im not rulling out anery i just think she is a little off from a normal anery.

Yeah,..pretty tough to say with any certainty. It would be interesting to do some test breeding with it when it matures later on.

a great find for sure!

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

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

>>I dont have a verry good camera to work with, she doesnt show any red, the color is off in the pics, for the most part she resembels a anery but she is alot lighter in the sadles all the way down her body and the yellows in her neck arnt right, but the base color on her is verru dark on her last 1/3 im not rulling out anery i just think she is a little off from a normal anery.

I think the most likely is simply a normal.
Cool looking gold tinted normal but a normal.
There have been some like that shown on here. Not quite as gold as Zee's goldens but with the golden almost caramel look.

there's a lot of different looks to normals out there

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>>>>I dont have a verry good camera to work with, she doesnt show any red, the color is off in the pics, for the most part she resembels a anery but she is alot lighter in the sadles all the way down her body and the yellows in her neck arnt right, but the base color on her is verru dark on her last 1/3 im not rulling out anery i just think she is a little off from a normal anery.
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>>I think the most likely is simply a normal.
>>Cool looking gold tinted normal but a normal.
>>There have been some like that shown on here. Not quite as gold as Zee's goldens but with the golden almost caramel look.
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>>there's a lot of different looks to normals out there
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you know the more I look at that the more it looks like Zee's
would love to see clear pics
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
(Draybar)
Draybars Snakes

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The yellowish cast is from indoor lighting. That is not a "Golden Corn" like Z's. It looks more like a ghost to me than anything else, though I reckon it could be an anery. Anerys occur naturally in certain parts of Florida.

It could also be an escaped pet. One of my students found a Corn Snake in Ohio last summer and my sister found this Ornate Box Turtle in the Greater Cleveland area last June at a Ski Resort.

Tim

Third Eye

"The yellowish cast is from indoor lighting"

Exactly!

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

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

same crappy point and shoot with more natural lighting

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1 freswwater tank

That looks to be an anery to me, just a bit browner in the saddles than is more typically seen. Was it captured in Southern Florida?

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

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

she was cought in southern Florida and there is a good chance she is just a normal or anery i will be happy no mater what she turns out to be she is still just a baby so she could go threw a major color change before she reaches breeding age.

but just to show you why im so excited about her still
here is one of Zee's photos of one of his goldens

Yeah,........being so young, it is very typical to see major color changes as they mature, I certainly agree. I saw Zee's original "golden" corn personally several years back, and it was absolutely STUNNING!!. They are also no doubt pretty variable, and some show much more golden and/or greenish coloration than others. That is part of the fun(and aggravation) of corns and many other snakes for that matter, you never quite know how the heck they will ultimately turn out to look like until they mature..LOL!

Good luck with those guys!

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

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Thanks I'm Excited to have a project that's "mine" everything else I'm working with is stuff that was started for me and i know how it will prove out she is my mystery for now...but im planing on breeding her to a ghost stripe to start so if she does turn out to be something other than anery i have a fun combo started.

Yeah, I certainly understand!,..and good luck with the breedings!

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

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Beautiful snake! I wish the local ones to me looked like that! Jeff

me too jeff i have to travel over 100 miles to find any corns