37″ long on October 31, 2012
This 2011 Striped Sunglow Motley is 37″ long and eating frozen/thawed adult mice. She has not been cooled in preparation for the 2013 breeding season, but there is still time to do that. She is most likely het for Stripe, so if you breed her to a Striped Sunglow, you should bet both Striped Motley Sunglows and Striped Sunglows. Some of her siblings were Butter Motleys, and it appears that she could be het for Caramel (ergo: Butter).
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive + Selective Variant
Many generations were spent in refining the beauty of the Sunglow Motley. Their genetic mutation is officially Amel Motley, but they have been selectively bred toward the goal of deeply saturated red coloration and classically orderly Motley pattern. For years, we were helpless to explain why the colors in this line were so deeply saturated and why they were redder than other genetic lines. In 2009, one of our friends that wondered the same and conducted breeding trials to determine what caused the intense colors. She concludes that SMR Sunglow Motleys possess the added mutation of what is sometimes referred to as Red Mask or Red Factor. It is allegedly inherited in dominant fashion (it is a recently discovered mutation and is still poorly understood). Once I validate her genetic inheritance findings, the price of Sunglow Motleys will increase, since they will undoubtedly become powerful genetic tools in deepening and saturating reds in other corn snake morphs.