Show & Tell
Photo comparative of two Amel Motley corn snakes; left, Hurricane Amel Motley and right, Super Sunglow Motley. The subject of toDAY’s feature is the color gene mutation that converted an otherwise boring and barely orange Amel Motley corn to the deeply red/orange we see in the Sunglow Motley, because the latter has the added gene mutation, Red Factor. In addition to exemplifying the distinction between an Amel Motley without Red Factor and one with it, the Sun Motley in this picture is often incorrectly described as having the HURRICANE pattern, but chain-pattern dorsal circles do not qualify as Hurricane. Hurricane Motleys have concentric rings around the dorsal ground-zone circles, like the meteorological weather map symbol for a Hurricane storm. Early in the corn snake hobby, some called these Donut Motleys or Bulls-eye Motleys, but Hurricane won out in the court of popular opinion.