Name that morph!

She is a lot lighter/yellower than my two normals but she is a lot darker/golden than my pastel.

Id go with normal. High gold, but not a pastel.

Hi,

Well I wouldn't get too excited as I suck at this type of thread to an almost preternatural degree. :oops:

But I think it looks like a fire?

Am I totally off base?


dr del

Not a normal, I could be wrong, but the belly & head suggest it may be a morph.

The clean belly (except for the burn :( ) I thought was a pretty good tell that it was so sort of morph. I don't REALLY care as I do no intend to breed her because of the burn, just seems like too much stress on an already injured animal.

It's hard to say with the belly burn--but I don't think we can tell if she has a clear belly from these pictures. I've seen a lot of dinker snakes that will have clean bellies from their head to midway down the body, and then they'll dirty up a bit. Only way to tell is to prove her out!

Cheers,
-Matt

P.S. Good on ya for the rescue!

Cheers,
-Matt

I really don't want to get your hopes up.. BUT:

1) she's super light
2) she has that awesome head fading

She screams "vanilla" from her looks. Don't get too excited as vanillas are close enough in looks to normals that I find it VERY conceivable that it would be possible to hatch out a normal and a vanilla that look identical, but assuming that she is able to fully recover from her injuries, she might be worth breeding down the road. The big roadblock for me suggesting she is anything other than a normal is that it's pretty hard to imagine expensive snakes getting passed on as something other than what they are.

Even if she isn't anything special, she does have that awesome light color. I would love to have a snake like that to selectively breed for nicer base morphs. She could quite possibly kick out some of the best pastels ever produced.

I don't know.

It is theoretically possible she's a Vanilla, but I lean heavily towards just a super nice normal.

I've seen so many normals in so many different variations I can't put a finger on exactly why, but to me it just says Exceptional normal.

She does have a bit of head fading, but so do a lot of normals I've seen. My own Vanilla has much more head fading than she does, but I've seen photos of what people claim are Vanillas that are even darker than she is with less fading.

I would wait a full year after she has healed, but if the breeding bug bites you next season, I'd put her to a Pastel, Mojave, Spider, Fire or Cinny male. With any of those morphs, if she is a vanilla, there will be no mistaking it.

Congratulations on your rescue, and I hope she continues to improve for you.

Gale

Probably a normal, but you won't know until you can prove it out by a breeding program and a few offspring.

Good Luck!
Jim Smith