I hatched this girl in 2004 as a 50% possible het pied. I was hoping her black belly was a variant of the het pied belly markers, but she never produced a pied. I still had her when the black bellies came out. What was obviously different to me is the black bellies that were being used to make the neat combo's had a fairly light dorsal pattern and black belly scales. Mine had a noticeably darker appearance to her whole body. She was one of 6 in the clutch and the only dark one. I hatched about 20 babies from her mom, none looked like her; Probably 4 clutches from her dad, none looked like her; And none of her babies looked like her. I decided she was an aberrant normal and sold her as a proven breeder. If one just shows up randomly in a clutch I doubt it is the morph. I never intentionally took a picture of her belly pattern, but part of it can be seen in the pictures below.
- Paul