Many of you have heard/read me say, “it’s often unwise to acquire a corn snake based on its hatchling phenotype (appearance)”. Five months ago, toDAY’s featured SOTD was a stunning Banded High-white Reverse Okeetee–showing only a faint blush of orange in otherwise white ground color zones (see pic 2 toDAY). From parents Miami Okeetee X Miami Okeetee (obviously, both het Amel), toDAY, the dirty white ground color zones are showing much more color. Seems that the genes from the Okeetee branches of the familyi tree are gradually imposing their ancestral wild color influrences? Bonus PIC . . .
