abell82 said:
Pardon me for asking but what makes Mary a blood other than the reduced patterned belly?She appears to have the pattern of most normals.
I think if you saw her in person you wouldn't say that.
Her belly is not reduced pattern, it is without pattern. There are small random freckles of black, but no signs of checkering or any type of pattern.
If you look at the pewter pictured in the Corn Snake Manual, who incidentally is her father, her pattern is very similar to his. Her saddles blend into the ground color on the sides, and the "side blotches" are barely present, and fade in from the ground color instead of being defined by sharp edges. Pictures tend to show more contrast than she actually has.
All in all, she is not the best example of the selectively-bred "bloodreds" that we all think of with that name, but she's most certainly not normally-patterned, and she is expressing the known trait that is also called bloodred.
Also, here's an '02 Pewter from Kathy Love, named Bluestreak. He's from the same pewter father, so he's a half-brother to Mary. Very similar pattern on him, too.
