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A snake that stumped people!

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dappled

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I made a post back in december including a picture of this little sweetheart.

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He was sold to us as an anery, but I had my suspicions about him being a ghost.

Well, now he's grown and shed and he now looks like this:

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After working with a friend of mine who is usually able to tell morphs straight off (she was stumped!), we believe we know what he is. A caramel ghost.
He has very unusual golds along his side, which was our first real clue, and these have REALLY amped up since his shed during this past week. He's coming up to approximately 7 months old now, and his colours are really starting to develop.

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Though I really hate to use such a blurry picture, you can see the colours really well on this one.
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Such an unusual looking snake! I only wish he wasn't for sale (where I work, which is why I have all these pictures), or that my mum would let me take him, I just want to track his progress as he goes.

Example, before this last shed his tail was very much dark grey and light grey, and now it's gained all these lovely browns! He just seems to get lighter and lighter with each shed!

I'm attached to this slightly skittish little fellow, 100%. Just got to work on a way to get someone snake phobic to love them at least enough to have them in the house.

(For posterity, the place we got him from DOES work with the caramel gene. I double checked just in case!)
 
He's very nice, but I'd still class him as a nice ghost rather than showing any caramel influence unless caramel is recovered in breeding trials. (If you check out most morph guides, anery seems to mask caramel, in general)
 
That's nice that he's getting handles, at least, so he can be a better pet for whoever buys him.
 
diamondlil said:
He's very nice, but I'd still class him as a nice ghost rather than showing any caramel influence unless caramel is recovered in breeding trials. (If you check out most morph guides, anery seems to mask caramel, in general)
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Oh of course, but it would be well worth keeping an eye on his colours because, whilst I don't expect him to suddenly display bright yellows all over, I'm curious as to whether it's always a total masking effect. I'd love to take him home, watch him grow, do breeding trials with him. See what's going on there.

Even if he does just turn out to be a nice ghost, I'm still a little confused by the levels of yellows he displays. Not overly normal for a ghost, as far as I'm aware!
 
Nanci said:
Ghosts, aneries, snows- even bloodreds and charcoals can display a lot of yellow.
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Agreed. At 7 months old, I would expect a ghost to have some nice yellows and to have the saddles starting to get a tan/brown coloration. That is very typical of anerys and ghosts.
 
He looks identical now to my Lia. ;_; I miss that snake so much. Lia was an anery het hypo. No caramel involved.

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