Plain-belly baby

[Caryl]

I had a small second clutch from Mojo and Esperanza. This is the first breeding season for either of them. Included with the ambers and another caramel was this caramel baby with a plain belly. I know that these crop up sometimes in normally patterned stock. Do they have any oddities when they reproduce down the road?

These aren't the greatest pics, as I snapped them while setting up babies. You can see the pattern clearly, though. I'm planning to keep her for the heck of it. When writing her data on her card I put "PB (plain belly) caramel," which makes me think of "peanut butter caramel," so I'm looking for a candy type name. Suggestions are welcome.

 

[Nanci]

I would call that extreme split belly checks.

Fannie May? Godiva? (Wrigley would be a good name for a bubblegum).

 

[jayson rafter]

I see a split checkered belly. Possible het.bloodred marker with that nice stripe splitting up those checkers. Nice caramel BTW.

 

[gelshark]

I second the exetreme spilt, and I seem to recall a lyric from Vanilla Ice that goes, "To the extreme". So I say name the snake Vanilla

 

[Caryl]

Okay, extremely split belly checks. Daddy appears to be masque, and has split belly checks himself. Several babies from the 1st clutch have split checkers, though nothing nearly as extreme as this little one. :shrugs: Maybe he's het blood, I dunno. He came from Rich Z. so hets weren't labelled, but he knew I was building caramel blood projects, so maybe he considered that when packing up my caramels. I guess in three years I'll find out if she's het blood. Now, to settle on a name.......

 

[Caryl]

I see a split checkered belly. Possible het.bloodred marker with that nice stripe splitting up those checkers. Nice caramel BTW.

Thank you. I have quite a few sibling caramels and ambers. Most have an unusual satiny look to them. I'm curious to see if these later babies have it also after their initial sheds.

 

[jayson rafter]

I'm willing to bet you got het.bloodred. are you gonna breed them back ?

 

[Caryl]

I'm not sure. I have other caramel bloods and het bloods that I'll probably cross them into/with. But... the dam of this clutch was listed as an "odd amber" ex-keeper when Rich retired. Maybe there's something else going on. Here are the parents in question, just fyi. The sire is a 2YO, dam is a 3YO. He has a lovely metallic sheen in person.