Striped Ghost (no aka)
Most Commonly Used Name: Striped Ghost
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive
Type: Triple mutation compound (Stripe + Anery + Hypo)
Combining the three recessive gene mutations; Stripe and (Anery & Hypo = Ghost) combine to render these beautiful striped anery types. Adult males tend to have earth tones and adult females usually stay two shades or gray. Stripes tend to fade more in males than females throughout maturity.
What to expect:
Both male and female hatchlings look alike (essentially gray or silver snakes with black or dark gray striping), but many of our males lose a noticeable amount of their stripes through maturity. Some females will lose SOME of their stripe with maturity, but some do not lose any. As with most Motley or Striped mutants, eliminating of black color zones is common, so through maturity, you will notice a softening of dark coloration. Belly should have virtually no color, but some can have gray or black mixed, but there will never be orderly pattern of any color and never checkering.
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.