Hi Aaron,

the female shows black markings like a leonis-phase and the male shows small black lines like a pinbanded, so they are not jetblack.

Write me a mail and i can sent you the pictures in higher solution(4272x2848 pixels,5 MB each, but they don`t show the pattern much better)
Maybe my wife can take some close-ups with macro-objective...but the snakes are in brumation now.

I have heard about melanistic thayeris from the old Lemke-line too, but I cannot answer your question now.
At the next Hamm-reptile-expo I am meeting some persons who can help with the history of my melanistic thayeris.
( I know who produced my thayeris...)

The parents of both are melanistic and produced only melanistic offspring, some tests have shown that this melanistic-phase works rezessiv.

Hope that i can post some info about my black-thayeris mid december.

Thanks for your reply,
yours
Michael

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