This is actually not a rare occurrence at all. I was breeding longnose snakes for about 8 years and some of mine were R. Lecontei and some were the texas subspecies. They use to consider another species called Leclaris that was all white and black, but if you breed two tri colors or a tri color and white and black. You get mixed clutches with no pattern of how they were created. They aren't anery, they are just a color phase. They are so variable that some have less bands and some red and some don't have any red. Very cool find though!

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