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I hatched this girl out two years ago. She bred this year for the first time. We will see if she is genetic in a couple more years. What do you think of her. One photo is her as hatchling and the other is now.
Kayvon

It's almost like all of her dark pigment that should be evenly dispersed throughout has clumped up in small areas. Will you be selling any?

Not selling any yet. The dark pigment is a little washed out in the pic. The areas of black pigment stop with a fairly crisp line, it can be seen best on her head. I bred her to an anerythristic, if the babies carry her gene their offspring should be pretty cool looking.
Kayvon

I think its a nice normal based on the fact you said the black was washed out (it looked really freaky but cool). But maybe I'm wrong but still looks like a nice normal.

Here is a pic of her with one of her siblings. All the sibs look like the dark one in the photo.

I agree, that is no normal. I would call it a reverse piebald. It looks like a piebald where all the extra white was replaced by black. It's so cool how all the black pigment was sucked out of the pattern into little blotches leaving the rest of the snake lighter than usual. I hope it's a new morph. What did you do with her siblings?

I sold the brothers off as normals and kept the sisters. Interesting side note on that. When it hatched I knew it might be something different, when I popped it two hemipenes came out plain as day. Before I sold the other males I sexed it again and no doubt it was a male. A year and a half later I went to breed it to one of its sisters and couldn't get "him" to show any interest. I tried it with other females and got nothing either. I tried it with an anery that I thought was female (bought it that way, never probed it) and nothing. When there were eggs in its cage one day I checked my records and probed each animal that had been with it. The anery was the male. Regardless of the color abnormality there is definately something genetically wrong with this animal.
Kayvon

"Regardless of the color abnormality there is definately something genetically wrong with this animal."

Maybe so...but then again it's possible that the coloration you're seeing is due to some form of egg stress proper to hatching. It's less likely to be that, since none of the other siblings showed the effect, but you really won't know anything for at least four years.

Cool looking snake though!
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Darin Chappell
Hillbilly Herps
PO Box 254
Rogersville, MO 65742

If you ever plan on selling some of the possible possible hets, make sure I know. If that is a morph, It's my new favorite. Imagine combining it with the christmas morph, it would have big green blotches. Good luck!