09 Yellow Belly? What do you think?

[hops523]

A het yellow belly? There are none.

[dr del]

Hi,

Sadly that wouldn't help as there is no such thing as a het yellowbelly.

Yellowbelly is the hererozygous form of the homozygous ivory. So you can call a yellowbelly a het ivory but that's the only way.


dr del

[wax32]

Nice flames on yours anatess:

[rjs73]

Anatess, from that pic yours doe not look like a Yellowbelly either.

[LadyOhh]

Anatess, from that pic yours doe not look like a Yellowbelly either.

Agreed...

[MarkieJ]

Yellowbellies have a bit of an aberrant dorsal pattern. It would be helpful if you can both post shots of your snakes from above.

[anatess]

Anatess, from that pic yours doe not look like a Yellowbelly either.

Waaa! I bought it as a yellow belly from Tim Bailey. Tim is, no doubt, a reputable breeder.

[coldblooded]

Yellow Bellies can be sort of hard to pick out sometimes... but, to me, neither the OP's snake nor Anatess (sorry ) look like one to me. (Not making any accusations against any breeders, just calling it how I see it.)

These are the things that I look for with a YB:

1. Flaming
2. Head spot (not always well formed)
3. abberant belly

I made a similar post a while back with pictures of my two... I'd also like to point towards the Hunter's Guide to YBs.

Here are my animals:

They vary in color a bit, but they both have flames that creep up the sides:


They both have head spots:


But the big thing here, is their bellies... Eros has a white belly but you can still see on the edges the 'distortion' of the color. Psyche, on the other hand, has a very yellow belly with the same distortion on the outer edges:



No black or grey track marks up the middle of the belly.

I hope that helps on what to look for. YMMV

[hops523]

I'll try and get a pic up tomorrow of the top of the snake. But she does have the head spot, not that that means too much.

[coldblooded]

I'll try and get a pic up tomorrow of the top of the snake. But she does have the head spot, not that that means too much.

The head spot, though, isn't indicative of a YB only. A lot of normals have head spots.

The belly is the key!