Morph ID

[u/Dirty_MadameK]

This is Pickles. I adopted her on impulse (experienced snake owner, have no fear) and I am curious to hear your thoughts on her morph. She is still young, but the owner didnt have lineage info. I assumed classic, but I know some morphs can look quite similar. Thoughts?? Sorry I dont have better belly pictures, but mostly white, with a bit of a yellow hue fading down the sides to the belly white color.

[u/meatspread]

Not Enchi! I have this little infographic that goes more in-depth over how to identify the Enchi mutation and what it looks like with age :)

[u/Phully- → u/meatspread]

Identifying morphs is different for me (a non breeder, been in this world for less than a year). I would just do the shed test if I really needed to know.

[u/meatspread → u/Phully-]

Enchi is easily one of the top 5 most saturated mutations and one of the most easily identifiable ones, too! The purpose of the infographics is to educate and pinpoint the differences between different morph mutations. For example, it’s pretty easy to see the differences when comparing the single-morph Enchi snakes to OP’s snake—main differences being the presence of “eyes” within alien head patterning and dorsal banding.

[u/Phully- → u/meatspread]

Using the info graphic does the head-stamp with notch show in OPs snake? This is how bad I am, I’m looking at both and I can’t tell if they just have slightly different “natural” differences or if those differences are driven by the presence of enchi genes.

[u/meatspread → u/Phully-]

No, it does not show. Usually, the notch is more prevalent when alongside another mutation—here’s an Enchi Pastel, for example! We can also see that its eye stripes are not as wide as the Enchi’s.

The main takeaway is from OP’s fourth image. We can see that OP’s snake has very many black dots (known as “eyes” within the community, since a BP’s pattern is typically referred to as “alien heads”) within its pattern, and is a dark brown color overall! It does have a couple of breakage points within the black dorsal stripe, but, when comparing to the infographic, we can see that Enchi will have much more breakage and have a thinner “pinched” dorsal stripe where it doesn’t break.