Most Commonly Used Name: Phantom
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive
Morph Type: Mutation Compound (Charcoal & Hypo)
This compound morph results from combining the color mutations, Charcoal and Hypo. In addition to the Hypo mutation having a paling affect on the Charcoal look, we were surprised to see that the yellow that slowly develops in many anery types from dietary retention of carotenoids – is exacerbated in Phantom mutants. I estimate that adult Phantom corns have at least twice the volume of carotenoid yellow than their non-Hypo cousins.
What to expect:
As neonates, Phantoms are just what you’d expect; pale versions of their Charcoal cousins. Like Charcoals, often, the contrast between iris and pupil is slight, sometimes rendering an all black eye that appears not to have an iris at all. Some adult Phantoms will have little or no carotenoid yellow, but most will have excessively more than most Charcoal corns.
Important Note:
The advertising images on our web site are representations of the average adult example of each morph. These images are not renderings of the actual animals being offered, (except for uniquely offered snakes found in the SURPLUS section of this web site). We do not provide pictures of individual hatchling snakes for sale, nor do we recommend that you ever choose a new pet based on an image of its neonatal form. Corns change so dramatically from hatchling to adult, they will NEVER have the same colors or contrasts throughout maturity. While most of the snakes we produce will mature to resemble the featured adult image(s) on our web site, unlike manufactured products that are respectively clones of each other, the nature of polygenic variation results in each animal being similar but not identical to others of its morph. The snake we select for you may not mature to be identical to the pictured examples, but will be chosen based on our experience of observing which neonates will mature to properly represent their respective morph. We take this responsibility very seriously, and therefore publish the guarantee that we will exchange your SMR snake if it does not mature to be like our advertised examples.