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....
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
1.0 Mojave Spider BP "Merlotte"
0.2 Normal BP "Maryanne and Tara"
1.0 Normal BP "Xander"
0.1 Pastel BP "Freyja"
0.1 Red-Tail Boa "Sookie"
1.0 Amazon Tree Boa "Stackhouse"
2.0 Moon Crabs "Dunbar and Santiago"
.Sorry to be blunt but cmon
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