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I Hatched a Fire Stripe!..... I think.

That snake is awesome! Ill bet it is a fire.

This is a picture of my poss. fire stripe/cube that i got from PJ as a baby.
 

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I can't help you other than to say what I observed when I just looked at photos of diffuse stripes and fire stripes on Ian's Vivarium. While I did notice a lateral stripe on all of them on the neck, I noticed that almost all of them showed dramatic diffusion along the sides and the lateral neck stripe was very short and even showed some diffusion in the older snakes. The stripe on your hatchling seems longer than most of the examples I saw (with the exception of one or two, and I might be hesitant to call them diffuse stripes without breeding trails). The diffusion in your hatchling looks like it is there but isn't as easy to distinguish due to the fact that it hasn't had it's first shed yet. I personally would wait on calling it diffuse until it has shed several times and make a repeat comparison then.
 
Post-shed Sparky.jpg

Sparky has had his first shed and taken one meal for me. He definitely looks brighter now. I can't wait to see how he will look as he matures!
 
He is AWESOME!!! My 5yr old daughter says he looks like a gummy worm...lol
Congrats!!!
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It's a great looking baby!
I don't know, it could just be an Amel Stripe but, I would lean toward Fire Stripe due to its head color (or lack of it), markings, and what appears to be diffusion along its sides (am not concerned that it shows some side striping, at the neck area, since some Blood Stripes do have that ... could be absent, short, or rather long).
Of course, as has been mentioned, a breeding trial will confirm one way or the other.
 
I hatched an Amel Stripe that has a very bald head pattern kind of like that (although admittedly not quite as extreme).. so just because the head pattern is skull like doesn't mean it's 100% Bloodred.

That said, it definitely looks very unique!

Let's see it after it sheds!
 
Jessicat said:
I hatched an Amel Stripe that has a very bald head pattern kind of like that (although admittedly not quite as extreme).. so just because the head pattern is skull like doesn't mean it's 100% Bloodred.
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True enough but I am going by the amount of missing color (from head) plus taking other factors into consideration (other than just the head color/pattern) ... which sways me, toward Fire Stripe, for now.
Again, breeding trials would be the best way to confirm one way or the other.
 
Any pics of the side/belly line where belly scales touch the sides?
I've noticed most Stripes and Motleys have what I call stitching right there on the very edge of belly. But my Fire Cube (RIP) didn't have that stitching and eventually when she grew up her side colour bled into belly just like Bloodreds' do. She also lacked the lateral stripe.
 
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Here's a picture of Sparky right at three months of age. His pattern is fading, and he's getting some nice color now.
 
He's looking awesome!! He already looks like he's going to be fire engine red when he grows up, and hey, he's not too shabby as a baby as well!

Glad he's doing so well for you, and thanks for the update. It will be really fun watching him grow. :cheers:
 
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