Lovely snakes! Clyde definitely has a motley pattern and not a stripe pattern, but he might be carrying the stripe gene as half of that pattern pair. Motley has a wide variation in pattern types such as pin-striped, Q-tipped and hurricane. Clyde shows some pin-striping and Q-tipping, which can confuse the novice, but the rest of his pattern indicated motley. Follow the links to
Fury,
Figaro, another one of
Figaro and
Fiesta, my anery motleys (actually all are het motley het stripe) to see just how much variation can be seen.