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Got this guy last year at Daytona. Was sold to me as a Ghost stripe. But after seeing other pictures and comparing he looks a bit different. Crappy camera so this is the best I could do. His eyes are not red btw.

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Scott
"The most powerful person never has to use it"

Very nice!,.....

Yeah, the flash washed-out the colors some there, but it must be a ghost that has a very substantial amount of pink. There have been a good number of higher pink strains of hypo, ghosts, snows, etc.. showing up in the hobby in more recent years. Many morphs now contain the so-called "strawberry" gene that goes along with a newer form of hypomelanism. And of course, hypomelanism is half the equation of a ghost, along with anerythrism.

So in short, it looks to be a very nice looking pink ghost!. It is very tough to say just exactly what is responsible for some of the much pinker corns produced now days, because there seems to be several different things at work, depending on exactly which bloodlines are the topic.

Specter ghost, strawberry ghost, pink ghost, Kathy Love's original "special project" ghosts, and many other coined names display various amounts of pink, but different recessive traits, as well as selectively line-bred traits are responsible any of these phenotype(particular look).

Here is a very striking pink ghost my buddy acquired years ago, but unfortunately, he does not know it's precise genetic lineage. He has not been able to produce any offspring from this snake either since he has had it either, which is pretty depressing.

BTW, are the pupils a very, very, deep ruby/blood red, and not black?

~Doug

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He never got any babies huh? Is it male or female? Man that thing is beautiful, I wish you had better news. It looks similar but not exactly to the Specters.
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This animal has an unusually tessera-like pattern, even to that common break and then restart over the vent.

As far as pattern, that looks more like a motley or striped motley. I see "cross-overs" between some of those stripes.

As far as color, I agree with Doug - there are some very pink ghosts out there, though a headshot would be helpful - in your photo that snake looks like it has red eyes - which would make it a snow. Better, non-flash photos would be great.

Here's a ghost I made this year:

Third Eye

He has very thick bands compared to most that i have seen...I was pourposely looking for that. So he is defaintly a stripe or motley or a combination of both. Whichever didnt really matter at the time.

i will try to see if i can get a better picture so you can see the eyes.

All i know is he is a pretty animal. I know Mike Falcon and he was pretty stumped by him as well.
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Scott
"The most powerful person never has to use it"

Yours is Ghost (possibly Strawberry in there) Motley/Pinstripe. That is not a normal Stripe. My attached photo will show you my old Anery Motley/Pinstripe breeding a Hypo Stripe, you will be able to see the difference in the two. The red stripes going down the Hypo Stripe are further apart from each other than the black stripes going down the Anery Motley/Pinstripe.