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I am fairly new to the KSB seen, But I have had this female for 5 months or so. I just thought there were like just anerys, amels and snows, But after looking on this forum, I see that there are a lot more. So I was wondering what morph would you call my girl?

She looks like a normal to me but the picture is not really good.

Pic 1 Tiger
Pic 2 High Orange

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Mark Huntley
Sand Boa Morphs

Kenyan Sand Boa's
4.1 Rufescens
2.2 Albinos
0.2 Dodoma
1.5 Flame
2.5 Normal (orange)
3.4 Anery
0.1 Snow
2.2 Hopeful Yellow Snow
0.1 Splash Albino
1.0 Splash Anery
1.0 Orange Stripe 100% Het Anery
2.0 High Orange Stripe
1.0 Yellow Stripe
0.4 High Orange Tiger
2.2 High Orange
2.3 Boston Terriers
0.2 Sooners
8.30 Rhode Island Reds
0.0.15 Tropical Fish
0.1 Moody Wives
1.1 On the fence in-laws
2.1 Rug Rats

Look familiar?

My high oranges are litterally bleeding orange. Awesome! I need to get a new group photo, every shed is better.
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Mark Huntley
Sand Boa Morphs

Kenyan Sand Boa's
4.1 Rufescens
2.2 Albinos
0.2 Dodoma
1.5 Flame
2.5 Normal (orange)
3.4 Anery
0.1 Snow
2.2 Hopeful Yellow Snow
0.1 Splash Albino
1.0 Splash Anery
1.0 Orange Stripe 100% Het Anery
2.0 High Orange Stripe
1.0 Yellow Stripe
0.4 High Orange Tiger
2.2 High Orange
2.3 Boston Terriers
0.2 Sooners
8.30 Rhode Island Reds
0.0.15 Tropical Fish
0.1 Moody Wives
1.1 On the fence in-laws
2.1 Rug Rats

you have a very nice clean normal female. those are getting better and better mark. thnaks, scott erycine1@aol.com

So what color pattern mean's it's a normal? Sorry I am just a bit confused on the subject.

I would say that your sand boa is a good looking normal. Normals are typically brown/orange or brown/yellow. As you will discover with time, there are a few morphs that are a bit tough to define (high orange, tiger, etc...). Knowing what the parents were is often the best way of knowing what morph of kenyan sand boa you have.

Pile o' normals:

Anery & normal:

Tiger morph:

Stripe:

rufescens phase:

Caramel albino??:

yellow snow & normal snow:

-Chris
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Christopher E. Smith
Contact
Captive Bred Herps
Wildlife Research & Consulting Services, LLC

Chris is right, knowing the parents and having multiple morphs in your collection sure helps in identification.

For someone who has not seen high oranges, tigers, flames, nuclears, nuclearmeltdowns, and dodomas at first glance and to the untrained eye, they look like normals.

It looks like you have a nicely patterned clean normal.

High Oranges or Nuclears have a much more vibrant and extreme orange.

Tigers will have more black/brown in their patterning because they are a normal crossed with a rufescen (almost totally brown/black with a little color of flaking on the sides).

Flames I would think would be the hardest to identify because at first glance they really look like normals but their colors are a bit more extreme and they are very clean meaning their black/brown colors do not run into their yellow/orange patterning. (Chris/Scott/Travis/Vinny/regulars maybe you could clean this description up better)

Dodomas are a locality in Tanzania and they have a reduced black/brown patterning along with almost NO patterning on their face and head.

Nuclearmeltdowns are a cross between nuclears (very bright orange) and a dodoma which results in a reduced pattern (black/brown) with a very bright orange.

Theirs a decent market for these subtilties in the KSB collecting community which has helped promogate their development.
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Mark Huntley
Sand Boa Morphs

Kenyan Sand Boa's
4.1 Rufescens
2.2 Albinos
0.2 Dodoma
1.5 Flame
2.5 Normal (orange)
3.4 Anery
0.1 Snow
2.2 Hopeful Yellow Snow
0.1 Splash Albino
1.0 Splash Anery
1.0 Orange Stripe 100% Het Anery
2.0 High Orange Stripe
1.0 Yellow Stripe
0.4 High Orange Tiger
2.2 High Orange
2.3 Boston Terriers
0.2 Sooners
8.30 Rhode Island Reds
0.0.15 Tropical Fish
0.1 Moody Wives
1.1 On the fence in-laws
2.1 Rug Rats