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Blue corn snake help (**pics**)

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Hello! This is one of my corns, Blu. I have a hard time defining his color. This is him this afternoon, not in shed, not wet, not under weird lights. I have been calling him an anery motley but I keep going back and forth that there is something else to him because I have never seen such a shade of blue. Can anyone help me? Or is he just a really odd anery?? Thanks :) (I hope I attached the pictures right! also please excuse the background- thats the inside of my "snake house" I spent all my money on racks and cages and snakes so the inside of the building we built for the snakes is very simple LOL)
 

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How old is he?

Could you get a close up of his face? That way we can see the eye color.

He does look like an anery motley that could be dilute.

Fella also looks a bit on the slim side, has he been off feed?
 
Rich- that was my very first thought when I bought him (and why I named him Blu, for "blue motely") but he seems so much darker then other dilutes that I have seen so to be safe I was calling him an anery motley since I know he has anery and motley characteristics. Does anyone else have any pictures of a dilute anery motley? (ive only seen a few on line)
 
He is actually in the process of being fattened up :) I bought him at repticon a few weeks ago and he was quite thin but he has a voracious appetite so he is gaining weight now.
 
hmmm since its dark this is the best I could get with my crappy cell phone camera until tomorrow :/
 

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Has he shed at all since you got him? That show was on the 5th and 6th, so it may be to soon. He looks like he could use a good shed. I bet most of those discolored scales will come off.
 
He actually was in shed when I bought him and after a nice warm bath he did a full shed on or about the 10th, so about two weeks ago. Maybe after a couple more sheds his true color will show through?
 
Hmmm. Maybe so. Sorta hard to tell. Looks like he has lived a little rough though.

I'd be willing to let him go one more shed cycle and then take a few photos under natural sunlight.
 
I want to see an update on this guy later, that is one seriously neat looking snake. I wonder if those dark spots stay. Did you ask why he was so thin?
 
Man, I dunno, but that snake looks like it is opaque to me. There is a milky wash over the scales. :shrugs:

Looks like it's had a pretty rough life, too.
 
Poor thing, I'm glad you're getting some weight on him. To be safe though, if you haven't already, I'd get a fecal done. You never know what kind of life he had before.
 
Rich Z said:
Man, I dunno, but that snake looks like it is opaque to me. There is a milky wash over the scales. :shrugs:

Looks like it's had a pretty rough life, too.
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You should see some of my rescues. I have a 10' albino burm that is scarred nearly from head to tail because some idiot put two 250W heat lamps on him and tried to keep him in a garage. My iguana named Kricket is named so because her previous owner thought thats what Iguanas ate and that was all he fed her plus the occasional mealworm. My adult ball python male has a deformed jaw because he had mouthrot that had been neglected so long it destroyed some of the tissue and it had to be surgically removed. I have two adults with bad rat bite scars, and I have a 4' female boa that was only being fed one small rat a month. :(

Blu was the very first corn snake I saw when I came in the doors at the show and I just fell in love with him and got him right away even though he was pretty scrawny. But he was mite free, infection free and rat bite free so thats a plus. Not to mention he has an awesome personality and he is a voracious eater- so scrawny we can fix! :) I will post updated pictures after he has been babied for a while.
 
Don't wait that long! I want to see more pics of this guy! Also, I'm curious, what effect did it have on the iguana being fed all those crickets? I know it's wrong, I just want to know what it did to her.
 
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