Color Questions

[MidnightIris]

This is a 3 1/2-year-old female amel who I've had since she was a week old. She's 39 inches long and as you can see, pretty thick (her girth has just about doubled in the lest year!)

Ever since she was a few months old, she's been devloping white sploches on her lower half. At fist I thought that maybe her color was coming in oddly, but the white has just been increasing with age (she currently has one saddle that's almost pure white).

The white is a pure white, not the "clearish" white that amels usually get in place of black. I was wondering if anybody here had an opinion about this?

This is a 3 1/2-year-old who LOOKS like a male, but was probed female. I've posted about this snake a year ago but this is a more recent picture.

The snake is loosing black with age and gaining a lot of yellow. (Some of the saddle currently have almost no black border.) I don't know what to make of this.

I was wondering if perhaps the snake is a corn/yellow rat cross, as there are about four dark lines visibly running down the animal's back.

Both of these animals were bough as CB babies from a local pet store, so I have no history on either. Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thank you so much!

 

[Kat]

First one's an amel, second one looks like a caramel to me.

I hesitate to make any sort of judgement beyond that on the amel, without pictures of the splotches in question.

As for your caramel.... uh... TBH there's no real way to tell a corn/yellow rat hybrid... that, and having him squished up against the glass of a scanner doesn't help. But corns do sometimes get those dark lines (though most breeders try to breed that trait out). Right now, I wouldn't assume anything about his ancestry.

-Kat

 

[red_dragon]

First one's an amel, second one looks like a caramel to me./QUOTE]

couldnt the second snake be an amber, she said the black got less, wouldnt that be a hypo affect? i mean, this snake doesnt have a lot of black.

 

[Nagah11979]

For the first one, IMHO it looks like one of the normal variations of amel to me. But for the second I would have to go with carmel (and a very nice one!) also. Even though the black borders are thin the snake has an overall dark hue compared with other amber types I have seen. Plus, as they get become adults, most normal, anery, caramel, etc. saddles get a lot lighter compared to what they looked like when they were babies.