Hey guys, Im new to the forums and pretty new to herp rearing in general. I got my first BP about 2yrs ago, unfortunately I made a lot of mistakes with her, so Im trying to educate myself even more and do better. I recently went to Toronto pet expo and picked myself up a beautiful MBK boy. I think I paid too much for him not being that knowledgeable, but I dont care, I love him. He was a bit of an impulse buy though, as I originally wanted to get a strawberry corn snake. As such a lot of my research was more into corn snakes and not king snakes.
Here he is, his name is the Count of Monte Cristo, Count for short:
Here's my question: When I bough him he was looking pretty much black. He has a couple of small white spots on his throat which I didn't notice at the time, but as I understand it MBK were originaly black and white to start with and then were bred to black so thats just an artifact of that, I dont mind it. But recently I've been handling him hes been looking sorta brown. Very dark but definitely with a brownish tinge. I figured he was going into shed cause he was looking dull, and indeed he did go into blue and shed within the next week. But heres the thing, hes still looking sorta brownish and when I hold him up to the light his scales and especially his belly still have this opalescent milky blue tinge to them.
Im not super familiar with him yet since I've only had him for a little while and honestly he HATES being handled so i try not to stress him too much and handle him nonstop. So I dont know if hes kinda always been like that and I just didnt notice or if this is a recent thing. I took a look at some other posts of MBK (adults) on the forum and they have the same milky tinge on their bellies, but I think that person mentioned that their snake went into shed shortly after. Basically thats what he looks like to me right now, like hes going into shed, except he just shed a few days ago.
Is this just how MBK normally look?
Here are some closeups:
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