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Here is my favorite milk snake morph.

Here are the names it goes by:
Splotched, Striped, Spotted, Aberrant, Applegate
Sinaloan or Nelsoni

Whatever you call them they look amazing.
Everyone has different patterns from full stripes to spots to a combination of them. I think any level from beginner to advanced hobbyist can enjoy this morph also. It’s not a hybrid or even a cross.

The Albinos are coming............

If you want to have some fun, I built a milk snake GAME on my website. If you are a regular reader of this forum, you should get a kick out of it.
http://MilkSnakes.com

Still kicking myself for letting Bob know when I first produced those, and then selling off the project as I didn't know if it was a simple recessive trait. My BIG claim to fame and Applegate get's all the credit, go figure.

Great looking snakes!

Tad Fitzgerald
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those are neat. bob montoya and i had noticed variable pale patches on the tails of our striped/aberrants, but never anything so dramatic as the absence of pigment on the heads of some of the snakes in your picture. And it looks, at least, like one's got a long un-pigmented area on the lower sides. am i imagining it, or can you show another picture, maybe a side view, of that animal? and tell us some more about the extent to which those areas are appearing. (yes, looks like amelanism is at least partly descriptive, but can you elaborate on why you said "the albinos are coming"?)

anyway, neat animals.

and for what it's worth, I got the animals bob and i worked with from Tad and was very pleased with them. I haven't forgotten your role in it, Tad!

peace
terry

Here is a picture of the underside and side. There is an amazing amount of variation to this morph.

It appears that there are a few other strains of aberrants that look similar but are not the same. Who knows if they are compatible. I know Shannon was developing his own line of aberrants that are totally different than the classic splotched that you see in the picture. The classic splotched that I know has a whitish belly with some black spots. Sometimes the spots aren’t there at all though.
And Robert Seib is producing a vanishing patterned sinaloan. Some of his line have vanishing spots down the back or even look similiar to these.

When I said the albinos are coming I was referring to the fact that next year we should start to see some nice albino splotched. I know more than a few people are working on that project.

Has anyone tried my MILK SNAKE GAME yet? You know how long it took to get that set up?
http://MilkSnakes.com

That game is addicting, and difficult. I don't do well with the arrow buttons. Is there any snakes that would move a little slower that the corn?
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Deborah McAllister

Sorry for the bad pic, it's an old scanned photo that was taken with a lousy camera.

As Terry mentioned the first ones were lacking a small amount of pigment in the tail area. It's hard to see in the pic but there was also a very small amount of pigment missing from the nose area as well.

If I recall Terry you purchased this one pictured as well as a similar looking sibling plus the parents that produced them. Are you and Bob Montoya still working with them? If yes I would love to see some recent pics.

Tad

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