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Hey I was at the last Columbus show and some guy had a soild chocolate brown kingsnake. No remnance of pattern (even when examined closely)

It was an adult, and the guy simply had it listed as "black mexican king" But there was nothing black about it...I'd acutally say "milk" chocolate.

I don't think the guy manning the table was the breeder...he didn't seem to know jack, I was thinking it was one of those chocholate cal's until I looked very closely and saw it had no trace of faint pattern at all.

Is there brown morph of nigrita?

Are dark brown, and occasionally I see lighter hatchlings that almost look like desert kings. I would imagine those lighter hatchlings would grow up a bit lighter, result in a brown snake instead of a black one.

Hey Dean, Sounds like one of the Baja kings. Probably the form called "nitida" which would be the striped phase. I have seen examples where the back stripe has disapeared making for a solid chocolate snake.

Frank
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"The luxury of not getting involved departed with the last lifeboat Skipper..."

Could be.

The snake wasn't even "dark" brown.
I don't think the guy selling it had a clue.