Need some chocolate help

Hey everyone im in need of a bit of help. Im checking out a bp that is labeled as chocolate. Im not disputing that it is or isnt but I know nothing about chocolate identifiers. Normally I would just do some searching but im at work and school wifi blocks almost all forums. I can post pics of the snake in question but I would prefer to understand what im looking for myself. Thanks in advance!


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They're very similarly colored to a toostie roll, have relatively normal patterning, and there is a super form that is a bit darker on the sides, but a bit more yellow along the spine. They are darker than a cinnamon or black pastel in non-super(heterzygous) form, but the super is not all black like either of their supers. However, when bread to albino, they become a solid brown snake, essentially a long tootsie roll with a head.

It's really hard to describe a chocolate with no pics. But here's my sorry attempt :please:.

It's a color and pattern mutation.

The black "keyholes" on the side of their body are shaped like the Mojave key-holes, and should be pretty short (they don't typically reach the back), and are very thin, and spread apart. Sometimes they connect all the way across the dorsal stripe. Though this is a banded type phase of Chocolate... I personally prefer the short key-hole type :gj:.

Some phases have a thin stripe along the dorsal, and others have very little patterning on the dorsal. The latter is essentially a black-back with the thin key-holes I mentioned above.

As far as blushing is concerned, most Chocolates have little to no blushing, which is why they're so cool when combined with Mojave, which (like butters/lessers) have 2 color phases - dark from half the body and up, then light on the lower half of the body. With chocolates, it darkens the dark section, and so you get a cool contrast going.

It would be easier to explain with pictures, maybe a diagram, and maybe some more combo examples WITH PHOTOS to show how chocolate features are brought out in other morphs.

Thanks guys for the quick responses


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