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Steve W.

Is there any orange on that little pin-striper? How would one tell if a pin-striper were anery, anyway?

Troy

No orange on the pinstripe. I only hatched out the one anery along with it's normal looking siblings. Both parents are alterna morph's. The male is a light phase that I caught in 1995 just north of the flashing amber light at the 277/377 intersection. He was breeding with a light blairs morph at the time. The female is a dark alterna morph that I collected in 1993 near Loma Alta during the construction work in that area. Here is a pic of the last anery she produced a few years back.

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Steve W.

How do you know the pin-striper isn't an anery? How does anyone know when they catch a pin-striper with no orange, that it isn't an anery?

Troy

LOL that's a good question. I've thought about that myself but I guess we will never know. All the snakes from the clutch were alterna morphs with the exception of the anery and the normal looking blairs morph. The normal blairs morph is a male which may be a good thing.
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Steve W.

The lack of red/orange pigments that characterize anerythristic alterna not only affects the orange blotches, but also affects the gray. Anerythristic alterna have a pure gray with no hint of buckskin. Most normal alterna have some orange mixed in the gray. It may be almost undetectable, but upon close inspection can be detected. This would be easiest with adults. Also, if you look at some of these pinstripers really closely, you might see some small flecks of orange that maybe less than the size of a scale on a couple places on the body.

I like the little one with the incomplete looking neutchal. Very cool!
Todd Hughes