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Morph Surprise

Not sure here, but seems like sunkissed anery mot to me, too. That pinky color is amazing! Can't wait to see post-shed pics and updates!
 
Not that I have hatched any of these out at all... I agree that sunkissed is a pattern modifier rather than a hypo gene..

I am not sure what you have there Terri, of course the tell tale motley pattern is there, but the head pattern is really odd, not showing the typical skull pattern like mots, stripes and bloods, but yet not showing a clearly sunkissed marking eithier... I suppose if you want to be rid of the degenerate freak, a lot of people would be willing to adopt it, but I suspect you have at least one keeper this year..


Regards... Tim of T and J
 
I'm saying Sunkissed anery motley, with the motley being the striped variation (not necessarily the stripe gene involved). If you look at the example of the Sunkissed motley given, the small stripe part on the neck is identical to the stripe in the snake in question. The head pattern and the pattern aberrations seen, especially that major break about 3-4" down, screams Sunkissed to me. The color is far too gray to be a normal colored Sunkissed motley, but whether or not there is hypo creating the lightness to the anery or simply the Sunkissed and the motley is yet to be determined. Once it sheds, we may be able to say with more accuracy what the phenotype is. In any case, I just want to say....WOW!!
 
Terri, please keep us updated on this little one...
that has to be one of the nicest babies I have EVER seen!
 
I'll throw the wrench.....

I've had a number of "wider" stripe animals pop up in sunkissed clutches that had no stripe or motley in the gene pool. There is always the chance it is this odd variant that pops up every once in a while.

Here's one I got from last year.


Nevertheless, it is a cool looking snake and I imagine the "holdback" or "send to Jeff" label will be applied so you can do future breedings to test it out.
 

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