It's hard to tell. The part wrapped over your hand looks like checks- see how they are square, and offset- not even seeping in from both sides? but then the area by your tat looks like the typical color seeping.
He doesn't look diffused, on his sides, much. And he doesn't have the masque head pattern that so often accompanies diffused. Yet, the white of his proximal ventral is SOOO stark white, with absolutely no checks.
He has so little white to his borders. Most fires don't have any, but I have seen some that have that little amount.
It's a mystery. I'm leaning toward amel unless proven through breeding trials.
I see what you mean about the ventral looking checked in part before turning white. I hadn't actually noticed that until that specific picture, it looked more like color seepage from the sides than checks.
I know motleys don't have checks but I still don't fully "get" what makes a motley, but from what I can tell, I don't think that's it either. I really want to get a diffused (avalanche, pewter, or whiteout in particular, anything with a higher gene composition would be way outside my budget most likely) to breed and see what happens and find out for sure. I don't know anyone local to borrow him out to, either.
I assume he is male, and again don't know anyone local who could teach me how to probe
He has a lightly tapered tail rather than a sharply tapered tail, wgucg to my newb eye makes him appear to be a him based off the hundreds of photos I have researched online for sexing by sight.
I
think my snow may be female for the same reasons (tail tapers quickly right behind the vent), but it's all guesswork for the time being. Even if I am right, Udjat would have 2 years and 220 grams and another 10 inches to be big enough. And with unknown heritage, at best I'd get amels and normals. The snow was bred by Reptiles by Mack, otherwise I have no genetic info to go on.
That aside, I agree that Ankh does have a particularly expressive face
He is exceedingly interactive and inquisitive as well. He'll follow me from within the viv, and follow my hand or fingers if I trail them on the glass. He will come right up to the glass with his nose touching to look me in the eye! Still a little finicky about being picked up from the viv, but in hand he's a big baby. His previous owner didn't touch him at all, but he is coming round to it without panicking like he did the first couple of weeks.
Last time I weighed him, he was up to 618 from 559g. It's hard for me to estimate how much he
should weigh, but judging by how his spine still sticks out after 60g, I am guessing maybe 200 more to get him filled out properly.
