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I went ahead and bought the king advertised here: http://market.kingsnake.com/detail.php?cat=59&de=293829
I've seen an identical snake referred to as a "high white desert king," but honestly I don't really know how it should be classified.
Anyway, I was just curious, so I could refer to it correctly. I think it looks fantastic, whatever it ends up being called.
-Imp
This snake is not a high white. It is a banana king. A high white cal king is as white as snow with some possible black markings/stripes/bands. Yours is yellow, so it cannot be a high white. This one is being sold as a "reverse stripe" I would assume because the vent is brown. Usually the vent is either yellow/white with some or all of the dorsal bands reaching into the belly or totally encircling the snake. Pretty nice looking snake regardless.
There are so many names floating around with the cal kings anymore its hard to put them all together. Almost as bad as the corns anymore!! You have many names given by many different breeders for the same snakes that it is hard to tell what you are really getting unless you do some research into the genetics of the snakes. Hope this helps.
Brian
>>I went ahead and bought the king advertised here: http://market.kingsnake.com/detail.php?cat=59&de=293829
>>
>>I've seen an identical snake referred to as a "high white desert king," but honestly I don't really know how it should be classified.
>>
>>Anyway, I was just curious, so I could refer to it correctly. I think it looks fantastic, whatever it ends up being called.
>>
>>-Imp
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RATS
1.0 Corn snake "Warpath" (KY locale)
1.0 Black rat snake "Havok" (KY locale)
1.1 Black rat snakes "Reaper and Mystique" (MO locale)
1.0 Albino Black rat snake "Malakai" (Dwight Good stock)
1.0 Everglades rat snake "Deadpool" (Dwight Good stock)
0.1 Greenish rat snake "Rogue" (Dwight Good stock)
1.0 Yellow rat snake "Wolverine" (Dwight Good stock)
1.0 Grey rat snake "Punisher" (White oak phase)(Dwight Good stock)
RACERS
1.0 Eastern Yellow Belly racer "Nightcrawler" (MO locale)
KINGS
1.1 California king snake "Bandit and Moonstar" (Coastal phase)
1.0 Prairie king snake "Bishop" (KY locale)
0.1 Black king snake "Domino" (KY locale)
1.0 Desert Kingsnake "Gambit"
0.1 Florida Kingsnake
MILKS
0.0.1 Eastern Milk snake "Cable" (KY locale)
0.0.1 Eastern/Red milk intergrade "Omega Red" (KY locale)
Good luck and Happy Herping
Brian
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