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This is Snakey. I think he's a normal, but there may be something else in him. He has a strange break in pattern in the middle of his back. The saddles get smeared almost into a stripe. You can see it some in the last shot. Feel free to let me know if he's anything else. BTW, I don't know he's a he, but I plan on taking pics of the underside of his tail and counting scales soon. He's just under 50" and 468 grams before his last meal. He just shed...worse shed ever. I had to run him through a wet paper towel to get the last 1/2" of skin off the tip of his tail.
A closeup.
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My 8 yr old daughter helped with this one.
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His odd pattern.
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I'm not so sure he is a normal at all... Pretty sure he's Motley though. My normal has more orange in him but i know there is a wide assortment of colors for normals, so he very well could be a normal. We need a pro over here! lol
 
Now that i look at that last picture, and i look at the saddles closer to the tail, it looks like a normal pattern. tough one for a newbie like me lol
 
Personally, I would say that looks to me like a Miami - Which yes, is a type of classic. I'm sure some may disagree with me on this. but thats just what i'm seeing. i'm no expert.

all in all. gorgeous snake :)
 
would make it a Motley? His coloring is changing with each shed. His belly used to be a typical indian corn pattern, but I'm noticing more and more orange blotches.
 
ok, my final decision is a Miami phase, Abberant saddles (i think that's how you spell it)
 
Very nice classic normal with a small aberrant pattern, often called aztec or zigzag depending upon how it looks. I wouldn't call it a Miami phase as there is just too much ground color.

And a small hint for Haarstad: The belly checks (2nd photo) were a dead giveaway that the snake was not a motley (they have plain bellies, no checks).
 
Susan said:
Very nice classic normal with a small aberrant pattern, often called aztec or zigzag depending upon how it looks. I wouldn't call it a Miami phase as there is just too much ground color.

And a small hint for Haarstad: The belly checks (2nd photo) were a dead giveaway that the snake was not a motley (they have plain bellies, no checks).
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Thanks. That's about what I figured. I'm not sure what you mean by ground color, but the "background" color is an orangish tan, pretty close to what you see in the second picture. The miami pic I saw had more of a silvery background. Now I just need to figure if he is a she. I'm going to get a pic of the underside of his tail, and count scales. Hopefully it will be fairly definitive since I wouldn't chance probing on my own. I don't plan on breeding at this time, so it's not a huge issue.
 
"Ground color" is the background color as opposed to the saddle color. And I'm a hard judge when it comes to the selectively bred morphs (Okeetee, Miami, etc). If it doesn't lean towards the ideal extreme of the morph, I don't call it by that name.
 
Susan said:
"Ground color" is the background color as opposed to the saddle color. And I'm a hard judge when it comes to the selectively bred morphs (Okeetee, Miami, etc). If it doesn't lean towards the ideal extreme of the morph, I don't call it by that name.
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Thanks. I followed that link showing the different types, but do you (anyone) know of a place where I can get info on what makes a corn a particular morph? AKA; it's a Miami phase if it has such and such a ground color and so on? I look at all these pics of these beautiful corns, but trying to destinguish what determines that it is one compared to the other from a picture is tough.
BTW, it doesn't matter to me one bit what he is, just that he is.:)
 
Susan said:
Very nice classic normal with a small aberrant pattern, often called aztec or zigzag depending upon how it looks. I wouldn't call it a Miami phase as there is just too much ground color.

And a small hint for Haarstad: The belly checks (2nd photo) were a dead giveaway that the snake was not a motley (they have plain bellies, no checks).
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First of all, i'm remembering the checkering thing lol

And i know what zigzag looks like cause that's a given lol, but what's aztec?
And what do you mean by too much background color?
 
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