Red-phase pickeringii

[ssssnakeluvr]

piiiiiiiictuuuuuuuuuuuures......I neeeeeeeed piiiiiiictuuuuuuuuures.....

[adamanteus]

Alright! Alright! I promise I'll do it this weekend... even if I can't get them in sunlight, I'll take whatever pictures I can!

[ssssnakeluvr]

LOL!!!! I gotta go take a few more myself...getting requests to show how big my gravid red spots are...

[adamanteus]

Okay. You wanted photos, so I've taken a few. Please excuse the poor quality, the light is poor today so I had to resort to flash. There is a lovely iridescent 'petrol' sheen to the head, that gets lost in the photography.

[reptileparadise]

Very pretty snake(s) James!
Lovely markings on that snake!

[Sid]

Very nice, James and certainty an unusual morph for pickeringii's

[Lori P]

Hmmm. Honestly, that's not how I was picturing them. I wanted them to look just like the blue phase, with only black and red. Don't get me wrong, they are beautiful, of course. But there's something about only having the two colors that appeals to me, personally.

[adamanteus]

certainty an unusual morph for pickeringii's

I don't think they are particularly unusual, Sid. Mine are quite similar (maybe a little redder) to the specimen photographed in Rossmans' book, to illustrate the sub-species.

[reptileparadise]

I agree James...It might be that red ones are more unusual in the States then they are in Europe...We don't get to see a lot of blue ones around here...

[adamanteus]

I might be tempted by the Blue Phase.... one day.
I think the reds, like mine, are actually the 'nominate form' for pickeringii.