Miscellaneous Sable Pictures!

I received a PM from Jopay about Sable Identifying marks, and have seen a few posts about them as well. So, I took a couple pictures of some of hatchlings from this year, and will include some pics of our original Sable that I took a couple years ago. Hopefully these pictures will help to display some of the identifiers that I have noticed. As with any genetic trait, there is some variability, but I have noticed that Sables have distinct belly patterning, and the other big thing I have noticed is the aberrencies of the Alien eyes. Almost every Sable we have also has what I call "Mr. Microphone" alien heads. The best description I can come up with is that the alien eye looks like a half moon inserted in the alien head. These can be seen in the pictures. Lastly, I have noticed that most babies, and almost every adult has lots of black tipping on the scales in the lower half of the body. This looks kind of like pepper sprinkled all over the scales (similar to what is seen in alot of granites). This typically comes in with more intensity as the animal grows and sheds. Also as they grow and shed, the overall snake appears to darken and get a blacker appearance. Please let me know if anyone would like to see other pictures, or has any other questions.

This is the belly pic of our original Sable.
http://www.baileyreptiles.com/pics/sablebelly.jpg

Here is another belly pic of one of our babies from this year.
http://www.baileyreptiles.com/pics/sablebelly2.jpg

This is a pic of our original Sable at about 1 years old.
http://www.baileyreptiles.com/pics/sable.jpg

This is a pic of one of our hatchlings that shows the "MR. Microphone" alien heads, black scale tipping, and other aberrent alien eyes.
http://www.baileyreptiles.com/pics/sablepattern.jpg

Hope this was able to help,

Nice animals, but for my taste the sable morph doesn't look 'different' enough to be interesting. Just my 0.02 though :)

Markus,
I am not a big fan of the Sable either, but I do love the Super. Therefore I have to tolerate this one to get to the one I want.

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Originally Posted by muddoc

Markus,
I am not a big fan of the Sable either, but I do love the Super. Therefore I have to tolerate this one to get to the one I want.

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That is certainly true. Super sables are indeed pretty special. It's the same story with YB's in my opinion, not special looking, but the super sure does ;)

Good luck with the project, Tim!

I agree that the sable morph is pretty subtle. I do like the belly color/pattern though. :D That first picture is sweet.

Thanks for the write-up and pics

Thanks for the very informative post muddoc! This is what ive been waiting for, some additional guides in determining subtle morphs. Well we have the guide for the yb, and now the sable. Hopefully some other guides for very subtle morphs pop up someday (or sooner will be great:)) like the Vin Russo, fire, etc. Thanks again!

i have to agree, not the most stunning morph. i'm sure there are enough fans out there, if not for just making the super, to create a market, there is for everything. what i'm posting for is to request pics or directions to find pics of the super which could possibly change my mind all together

Great looking sables Tim.

Great Info...thanks MBM

I'm glad thid proved to be helpful. Unfortunately, I don't have a Super, or know where a pic might be. I'm sure someone will post a pic (maybe even Louis Kirkland).