New Butter

[Blue Apple Herps]

More convinced than ever that he's not a butter. Sorry.

He is a very very nice looking amel. Sometimes het caramel can show though, and he has the coloration to possibly be het caramel, but only breeding trials will tell for sure unless you're 100% one of the parents was a butter.

[joepythons]

More convinced than ever that he's not a butter. Sorry.

I agree

[wendhend]

The new pictures are helpful. I still think it looks more orange than a typical butter corn... but not as red as a typical amel hatchling would. Its irises appear to be yellow / gold in color, right? You do see that golden color in butters, wheras, amel eyes are typically more pink. Has anyone considered that this hatchling might be hybrid, such as a creamsicle? Its yellow-orange color looks like fairly typical creamsicle coloration to me. Some creamsicles can look quite yellow, which might explain one or both of the parents looking yellow but producing an orange baby? Just a thought... In any case, it is a very pretty little snake, and it would be cool to see future pictures of how its coloration changes with maturity.

[joepythons]

Face it the ONLY way this snake is going to be a butter is if you roll it in butter .Sorry to be blunt but cmon

[Jay_Bunny]

face it the only way this snake is going to be a butter is if you roll it in butter .sorry to be blunt but cmon

[Jay_Bunny]

Sometimes the breeder can be mistaken. I had a friend who worked at a Petsmart and one day she calls me and says "We have a pastel ball python in the store! I didn't think we'd get one in but a guy who breeds ball pythons came in and said it was a pastel." So of course I go to the store to see this "pastel" and sure enough it is a normal. Some average blushing maybe (my normal female has more blushing than my pastel) but definitely not a pastel and my friend readily believed him that it was a pastel when in fact it wasn't, so you can never be too sure when a breeder labels an animal as something.

And it could very well be a case of retained sperm or maybe he forgot that he paired an amel with the female. I am no corn snake breeder, though I hope to start breeding corn snakes very soon but from what I've seen of amel babies and butter babies, that looks like an amel to me.

I know we are just beating a dead horse (gosh I hate that phrase) but I would do a little more research on your breeder and ask him to send photos of BOTH parents, updated ones, with perhaps a current date in the background just to make sure. I dunno. Just a thought....

[illini4x4]

I know we are just beating a dead horse (gosh I hate that phrase) but I would do a little more research on your breeder and ask him to send photos of BOTH parents, updated ones, with perhaps a current date in the background just to make sure. I dunno. Just a thought....

x2. just kinda skimming the thread but I would definitely get some pics of the parents with the current date in the background