T.s.sirtalis genetics question

[sschind]

Thank you all so much. That is exactly what I was looking for. As soon as I get off the phone with the infernal revenue service (on hold for 25 minutes so far) I'm going to call the guy I got them from. If he doesn't have a baby male maybe I can get the parents back.

Steve

[infernalis]

I had to join in on this one, I have been obsessed with flames for years. Ever since I saw the picture of Dr. Alan Francis' high red super flame!

Well I invested in a flame from Scott Felzer, and as luck would have it, I caught a wild specimen in my yard! (30+ years of flipping rocks, boards or whatever I can find, and this is the first ever eastern I have picked up off the ground with red stripes on it's sides and a white stripe on it's back.)

Then the next day, I found a female eastern with only hints of red on the edges of her scales, and there is that white back stripe again. This gal turned out to be gravid, so she is in a tank (spoiled rotten) until the neonates arrive.

Regards,
Wayne A. Harvey

[sschind]

Well, He sold the rest of the clutch and the parents so I'm SOL unless someone here has a baby melanistic male. I was tempted to go with 2.2 for this very reason but I was too cheap. I guess I don't have to be in too much of a hurry, even if I have to wait until next year to get one it won't hurt to have a male that is a year younger than the females anyway. That way I won't be tempted to breed the females too early which I personally think happened with this pair of parents anyway. They were less than 2 years old which would help explain the small clutch.

[infernalis]

So what would be the opinion of this little snake (NOT my snake here)



what exactly would this coloration be called?

I am a real Genetics rookie, but I would have called this a "semi-melanitic flame"

Next big question, as this one grows up, would the black eventualy "consume" the red masking it completely?

Whatever it is, I want one

Wayne

[KITKAT]

So what would be the opinion of this little snake (NOT my snake here)

Not sure if others will agree, but I would call this pic "photoshopped". The skin tones on the hand are waaaay too red to be real.