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Het Motley showing up in snakes appearance?

Shiari said:
I got Vanay as a hatchling and he always ate like a champ. He was terrible for handling though, and I often referred to him as my tornado snake. He was probably... my 5th or 6th snake. While he's lovely, I'm not terribly attached to him because I like to be able to *hold* my snakes and he still hates being handled. He doesn't bite, but he doesn't ever hold still either.
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Sounds a bit like my Lavender het anery, hypo mother that I have. Good luck with your season next year.
 
notserp said:
My female Laveneder's markings start off in a Motley pattern, even her belly has no marks for the first section of her body. Now a bunch off her babies are showing this as well. I always thought the Motley gene was totaly resessive but now it seems some snakes just show a small portion of the pattern mutation. Does this mean they are most likly het for Motley? I had a pretty respected person say that it does.
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Do you have photos? Belly pictures are easy in a glass pan or clear deli cup. If in a glass pan, sometimes filling the pan with moist sphag moss, they will burrow down to the bottom of the pan. Do this when they are on empty stomachs, glass is cold and will slow digestion. Then you can hold the pan over your head and snap some pics, so the flash reflects away from the camera.
 
dave partington said:
Do you have photos? Belly pictures are easy in a glass pan or clear deli cup. If in a glass pan, sometimes filling the pan with moist sphag moss, they will burrow down to the bottom of the pan. Do this when they are on empty stomachs, glass is cold and will slow digestion. Then you can hold the pan over your head and snap some pics, so the flash reflects away from the camera.
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I don't have any moss at the moment but I tried to take a couple with my horrable camera skills. You can see it a bit, just not in detail
 

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dave partington said:
Do you have photos? Belly pictures are easy in a glass pan or clear deli cup. If in a glass pan, sometimes filling the pan with moist sphag moss, they will burrow down to the bottom of the pan. Do this when they are on empty stomachs, glass is cold and will slow digestion. Then you can hold the pan over your head and snap some pics, so the flash reflects away from the camera.
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Sorry, I forgot to tell you, I don't have any babies left and I don't have pictures of their bellies.
 
There actually aren't that many missing checkers on that snake. I was expecting something more dramatic! XD
 
Thats weird. I have had 7 other corns in my life and have seen many others and they all had way more checkers then this, as well as the babies I have produced It is hard to see but the first half of her is very reduced in checkers as well which I am not used to seeing.
 
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