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What morph is he?!

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Chopstick_Chick

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Hey everyone, this is my new little guy Sylar, just picked him up today. I know he's an amel but his pattern is beyond me lol. I thought he might be a motley, but he doesn't look like any other amel motley I've ever seen and I don't think he's a stripe either. So strange, but he's so pretty!

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I would guess stripe. The cube and sunspot patterns on the back half of the snake are a form of stripe. Nice looking snake.
 
I wouldn't jump on the stripe bandwagon just yet. I would like to see a full body dorsal photo as that pattern looks more motley than stripe to me, even considering cube and sunspot.
 
I'll take some more pictures tonight after his mite bath, this time from the top so you can see the entire pattern. It's so bizarre, like he's made of two different snakes cut in half and stuck together lol. Actually one of the reasons I picked him out, mites or no mites, since he really caught my eye with his wacky pattern :)
 
I will wait for more pics... but I am thinking he's a cubed stripe, because his pattern really goes away towards the tail end.
 
Here are some more pictures of him, this time from the top. I tried to get as much of him as I could in each picture but he moved pretty quick after that nice warm bath he was constantly trying to escape out of -_-;

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I should also note that his belly is completely white for it's entire length and his real life coloration is represented pretty accurately in these photos.
 
The actual striped parts, what little there actually is of them, seem to have too wide of a stripe with too small of a distance between them, plus the irregularity to the thickness of the stripes, plus all the motley-esque connections, I wouldn't call it a stripe. Sylar IS a great looking amel motley!
 
I am curious as to why motley and not stripe.. I will have to look over Apollo tomorrow to find the differences.

On a side note.. you mention a warm bath.. I sure hope you didn't actually have him in warm water? To us, water that barely feels warm, is boiling to a corn snake. Make sure you're using room temperature water or you have a cooking thermometer to make sure the water isn't too hot.
 
To me he looks more like motley and stripe, just because he is so strangely patterned and I have had a normal stripe before and her stripes ran almost the entire length of her body in a uniform size, but then that was about 3 years ago and he is the first I've been able to have since I had to sell her, so perhaps he is some sort of stripe or maybe a sunspot motley? Not really sure.

Oh and also no worries about the water I am well aware of the temperature differences felt between humans a snakes, he is not my first. It was on the colder side of lukewarm so no problems :)
 
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