Motley or not-ley?

[Shaky]

I saw a nice corn whose saddles seemed a lengthened motley pattern with the hypo-type effect. I would consider it a motley , but the belly pattern was something I have not seen before.(I thought motley ventrals were always plain)
This snake had no checkers, but was covered with a tiny, peppery sprinkle of black)
I guess my question is "How varied are motley belly patterns?"

[Kat]

I've seen bellies like you've described, only they belong to snakes of bloodred lineage rather than motley...

[Jr Nimeskern]

I agree Ive seen bellys like that but only from bloodreds... Motleys and Striped corns usually have plain white bellys... the peppered look is more of a bloodred thing... I would definantly pick that snake up... the belly tells all!!! I would say that its a young bloodred...

[Shaky]

...look like a light motley. I'd say its well over a year old.
Maybe 2.
Anyway, I can't use it or house it right now(seems to be a male), but I wish someone here would. I'd like to see it develop.
(Here=Austin, TX)

[SilverTongue]

Where is the snake Shaky??

[Shaky]

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[Jr Nimeskern]

LOL ST you better go and get it!!!! how much was it Shaky?

[SilverTongue]

hehe sopunds like roadtrip time! Too bad I have to wait till this Fri for payday!! :(

[Iris]

for the first 1/3 of his body, the belly is plain white
then it gets slightly peppered with black dots. Then peppered with an orangey background. I always thought this was a typical stripe's belly. Could he possibly have some bloodred blood? Or this is a normal thing?


http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/4638belly1.JPG
http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/4638belly2.JPG
http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/4638belly3.JPG
http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/4638belly4.JPG

[SilverTongue]

Very interesting

[LadyChaos]

Now here's a reason I don't believe the whole peppered belly thing is related to bloodreds....I used to have a female that was an anery striped motley (the ONLY one out of the entire clutch of 18 that I picked her from) with her entire ventral peppered. Awesome snake, Murphy's law got me in that she was the one and only snake I've lost to egg binding thus far. I have ahypo motley het anery male that also shows a lot of peppering on his belly...I'll take some pics this weekend and post em. I also have an amel that has blurred checks and peppering on her ventral (amel bloodred background? no idea what she's got lurking)...far as I know she has passed this on to her offspring....I gave one of her first male hatchlings to my sister-in-law and will be holding back a female from one of her clutches this year to see what happens.

and to think I wanted to thin the corn population to build up the hondos and leos. *sigh* Addiction is evil...someone take away my credit cards.