Show & Tell
The subject of toDAY’s SOTD is a comparative demonstration between a Scaleless Cornsnake and a Scaleless Motley Cornsnake. I chose two siblings from the pairing of two Corns that are het for Scaleless Sunglow Motley (neither of these is Amelanistic, therefore, not Sunglow). SO, you’re seeing obvious expression of their Red Factor mutation, but toDAY’s feature is meant to show that the majority of the obvious Motley pattern in corns resides in the outer epidermal layers, that are missing in the Scaleless snake shown toDAY. Had I hatched a SCALED non-Amel Motley in this brood I’d have shown that one, instead of this non-Motley, but it’s obvious enough that most–if not ALL–Scaleless Motleys have very faint patterns. Many Striped Scaleless corns appear to be pattern-less.