could this be a ghost ?

[woodworm]

She was sold to me to be a ghost het snow, but I think she's anery...
What do you say ?

 

[Darin Chappell]

There is just so much variability in aneries and ghosts that is difficult to say based solely on a picture. It LOOKS anery to me, but there is no way to pin it down beyond mere opinion based on looks alone. What you need to do is breed the animal to a known hypo or a ghost to see what your animal has in it, genetically speaking.

Unfortunately, even then you run the risk of finding out that your animal is homozygous for a different strain of hypo, but that's another story . . .

 

[13mur 6]

Got a recent shed of this guy? Should look clear with no pattern on it if it's a ghost (look at the head shed), if there's a pattern, then it's Anery. Also take a look at how faded the belly checkering is, dark checkering will point to anery, ghosts have pretty faint checkers.

-13mur 6

 

[Kat]

Nnnnnoooo.... pigment on the shed is only an indication of how much pigment is on the snake. I've had ghosts and anerys alike produce pigmented shed. About the only morphs that always produce a clear shed are snows or blizzards... and those are pretty easy to spot on their own.

The only for sure absolute way to tell a ghost from an anery is by breeding trials. Sheds don't cut it.

-Kat

 

[woodworm]

Yes, I know, the only way is breeding
I know

But I hate waiting.
Maybe I'll know it in a couple of weeks.
Thanks for your replies.

 

[Serpwidgets]

Also, dark belly checks don't prove it either. I've got a charcoal ghost with dark checkering.

(Is the horse dead enough yet? LOL.)