this is another morph question

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From the picture, your snake is clearly an amel, which is short for amelanistic. Red albino is another name for the same thing. I'm not good enough to know from just the head shot if he is motley also, but since you were told he is, I'll assume that is correct. Motley, in case you don't know, refers to the pattern, rather than the color.

Butter is a combination of amel and caramel. Since you were told het for butter, that really means het for caramel, since your snake is already homo amel.

Your description of the parents also fits with those genetics, so that's always good.

As far as what to breed with him, it depends on what you'd like to produce. Perhaps the most fun would be a caramel het amel and motley. That would allow you to produce amels, amel motleys, caramels, caramel motleys, butters, butter motleys, and normals and normal motleys, all in the same clutch!

Also, if when you said mom was a solid red, you meant solid red with no pattern, then your snake may also be het for bloodred, which can look almost patternless in adult snakes. Another possibility for the mother looking patternless is if she was a stripe, and that works with motley in ways I don't fully understand, but I think it would mean that your snake which appears motley actually has one motley gene and one stripe gene. So, if mom did appear as a solid, patternless red, you might want to get back to the breeder and find out what she was.

If the stuck shed is only a small piece, I'd just leave it until the next shed.