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Here's 2 of my 3 c.h. girls. My third is less extreme in belly, pattern, color and neck break which are for me, the critical visual traits to keep in mind. I have spent a lot of time comparing/contrasting these two snakes with everthing else in my collection, and will for the sake of discussion assume these are, in fact -- Black Bellies.

I believe the Black Bellys' Belly differs from a normal with some/many black belly scales. It's as though the 2 row side belly scale pattern that you find on most morphs and normals was magically sucked to the dead-center of the underbelly. Also, their pattern is "melted" and shows no true consistency from one side to the other, as well as having no alien heads. They do have only a few random 1-6 scale markings. When I look at these girls, I can see that Yellow Jacket (great name!) trying to get out!!!

I have a couple of posts on kingsnake forum that will fill in some other info about these 2 girls and what LITTLE I know about Black Bellies. They are a mystery to most ball keepers I have found. Had to put the Bee pic breeding one of the girls. He was a late to the party this season, but has become a solid lock-up artist after his slow start!