A Question

[dot_s]

Hi everyone --

I'm pretty new to snakes, (I raise/keep salamanders mostly,) but after six months of reading on husbandry, I got my first ball, (an '05 imported male baby) at the last White Plains show.

My cousin is more educated in snakes, and after seeing "Rupert," he says he's a granite. I don't personally know enough about morphs to think of Rupert as anything other than normal, (but learning, thanks to the tons of information I've found through Fauna,) so I figured I'd ask people who know far more than I do about such things. (I apologize for the dark pictures.)

Who's right? My cousin, who thinks he's a granite, or me, thinking he's just a normal?

Thanks!

 

[dot_s]

I didn't realize you couldn't see it in the pictures, but he does have speckling in the brown "alien heads" along his sides.

 

[Jim O]

I didn't realize you couldn't see it in the pictures, but he does have speckling in the brown "alien heads" along his sides.

Dot,

I adjusted the levels a bit for you so the pics could be seen a bit better. I hope that you don't mind.

 

[harrellharrell]

Sure looks like a granite to me, but the pics make it a little bit of a sketchy guess. Post some brighter ones, and I'm sure someone around here will be able to give you an experts opinion.
Mine is an educated guess since we don't have any, although we're planning on some soon.

 

[dot_s]

Thank you, Jim and Anthony.

Here are some better pictures.

 

[harrellharrell]

Those are great pics of a great snake, but I don't know if its a granite. You ought to ask Next World Exotics. He'd be the one to ask about that specific morph. I would go out on a limb and say it is not just a normal though.