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Last fall I rescued a cal king from another woman who "didn't have room in her apartment" for him. Anyway, I've been trying to figure out what morph little Echo is, but I've never seen a picture of another snake that looks anything like him...until now!

I will post actual pictures of him as a reply, but here is the internal link. He looks like the snake with its head furthest to the left.

Thanks! melody
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Ok, here are actual pictures of Echo. Isn't he handsome? If anyone has a name for his morph, let me know!

melody

>>Ok, here are actual pictures of Echo. Isn't he handsome? If anyone has a name for his morph, let me know!
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>>melody

Thats what I call a aberrant Cal King, a mix of different morphs. Nice black and white
Bob
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There are MANY crazy natural and man-made designer morphs of Cal. king out there, but the crazy abstract pattern isn't really any particular "morph" per se, aside from perhaps what is known as a "50-50" morph. But I do think it would probably be best called a very aberrant 50-50 Cal. king.

Pretty unique I must say!

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That's a good looking snake!
I agree with what the others have said about what morph it is.

Tim

That is what some people call a high white 50/50 or a desert abberant cal king.

mixes of bannana Cal king (aka Newport phase x abberant S.D locales0 ) with desert striper (Scissor crossing locale-desert phase striper) may be the base ingredients. But there may be other hight white desert cal king mixed with abberrant coast cal in it as well.

What someones goal was is to breed out the yellow coastal (yellow abberant phase) of the cal king to get more white which resembles and came from the desert phase. The reason i brought up scissors crossing locale is that is the only locale that has desert stripers cal kings and that may have been used to create the unusual large degree of white on top of the dorsal area.

Whatever the mixed locales are it is still pure california cal kingsnake with more desert phase in it than coastal phase but the abberancies came from the coastal phase cal kings and then bred back to the white desert phase. A result of many decades of breeding endevours.
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Thanks for all the feedback! I would love to know where Echo's previous owner got him and how old he is, but I'm happy to have a gorgeous, unique, friendly snake! I'll have to do more research to see what might have gone into creating this beautiful creature. Thanks for letting me show off!

melody

Check out the website for Professional Breeders and look at the Cal king sections. He describes some history of the high-white desert and high yellow coastal Cal king pattern anomalies. To get abberrants like yours, a breeder would mix in some striped Cal king typically.

Results vary and are not very predictable. Well, at least on the first breeding. After an established pair produces babies of a certain look, they will often continue to do so in later breedings.
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Mark

Thanks! Do you have a link?

melody

Here is the link Mark mentioned

50-50 & Newport-Longbeach kings

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