What color is this little guy?

[AliCat37]

I will be the first person to admit that I am pretty new to snakes in general, and I only know the morphs/colors I have owned or my friend who breeds corns has every year. This is the first time I've hatched my own.

Alright, here's the background story first- My boyfriend and I got a few cornsnakes off of craigslist a few months back. A male snow, and female amel. They had been caged together and the owner said they had been copulating and that she may be gravid. Sure enough, the very next day we noticed the female bleeding, so we put a box in the cage and she laid 15 perfect eggs. We incubated the eggs in a hovabator incubator (the kind I used previously for chickens) and 2 eggs died, one ended up being a slug of some sort. (Babies are all healthy and eating well now). When they first hatched they all looked snow and amel, but the ones that I thought were snow are producing bright colors I'm not familiar with. I've only ever had anery corns and normal colored motleys, so I'm not sure if this is normal for snows or if they're a different color completely.

So my question is, what's your opinion on this little guys color? The colors are neon like they show up in the picture.

 

[AliCat37]

Oh! And thanks for any help/opinions in advance

 

[airenlow]

It's probably just a "late bloomer" Amel. It should color up with each shed and eventually look like a regular Amel. Interesting little guy though!

 

[AliCat37]

Thanks! I was planning on hold this one back for a few months to see how it develops since it has the most vibrant colors of the clutch.

 

[Christen]

Thats what all my amels pop out looking like!!! The pretty much look like peachy to orangy snows but wait till after the first sheds you will be amazed.

 

[AliCat37]

Yep, these guys have already shed.. I was just so shocked when all my snows started turning neon colors! haha. The amels from the clutch are really gorgeous too.

 

[Christen]

Here is a picture of a baby pile that had an amel in it that looked just like that when he hatched and this was after just one shed.

 

[AliCat37]

Wow, that is some color change! I definitely cannot wait to see what he/she turns out to be. Thanks everyone for your input! I really appreciate it since I had never seen babies that color haha

 

[Susan]

I would love to see larger images to get a better look at the saddle bands, but from the ones provided, that hatchling could be an extreme Reverse Okeetee...saddle bands so wide that the saddles themselves are almost completely gone. If you have produced one yourself, you are very lucky and I think I hate you! Steve Roylance breeds them and has some super examples, like this one taken from his website:

 

[AliCat37]

I will try to get some better pictures of him after I get off work- he's just so squirmy!! I will also have my boyfriend sex him for me, so I know if he is actually a he.

 

[Airidies]

Wait you said the Parents are a Snow and an Amel? All the babies should have been Amels with maybe some snows if mom was het anery... I see normals in there too right?

Would you post pictures of the parents? I think one may not be what your thinking it is...

 

[Pasodama]

I see normals in there too right?

You were looking at a photo that belongs to someone else.

 

[Christen]

LOL Yeah that would be me and that was a normal snow cross so I would have been shocked if there was no normals. lol

 

[AliCat37]

Yeah from the research I did I found that all the babies should have been amels het for anery. All the babies in my clutch are definitely albinos of some sorts (red eyes!)
I have no idea on the background of the parents.. I imagine the people we had gotten them from probably got them at a petsmart/petco. I might have old pictures of the parents, I don't have them anymore so I can't get new ones.