The Color-Changing Snake!

[windowswisher]

My boyfriend picked up this little one, which we thought to be a snow stripe, in late August. The snake was popped as a male. I picked out a little butter stripe, also popped as a male.

Here are some pictures a couple of weeks after he arrived home. Well, after his first shed he looked COMPLETELY different - much, much more yellow. He is definitely a butter stripe, like mine. I only wish, wish, wish he were a female! The couple told me he came from a Gold Dust pairing, although I thought Butters were amel x caramel.

It's odd the different personality he has from (presumably) his clutchmate, my butter stripe, Zipper. Zipper is fast and a bit squirmy. Slink (as Byron named him) is the calmest little baby I've EVER seen!

Will be fun to see their progression/track their change in colors. He looks very, very similar to my butter, Zipper: http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104168



Here he is, Slink 2010 Butter Stripe:

 

[Shiari]

The pictures are too yellow to tell if your snake is actually a butter, or just a rather yellow snow (which can and does happen).

Golddust is ultramel caramel. You breed those together and the resulting offspring are either ultra caramels, ultramel caramels, or butters.

 

[windowswisher]

Yes, he does have the most yellow lightbulbs I've ever seen. The whole place is so dim.

Here's a couple more, maybe you can get a better idea:

Eventually I'll get him outside.

 

[Scrufdog]

yeah, butters get yellower as they age. My butter motley was tan and brown when I got him, now he's bright yellow.