Okay so this is an Enchi, Mahogany, Yellow Belly Pied and after my own research I can see how on a Mahogany Pied even if it looks similar as a baby without the Enchi there is a black edging between the white and the coloration. I think I have this right in saying:
Mahogany darkens.
Enchi reduces white
YB increases white
Beyond that I don’t know how they impact each other and how the Yellow Belly is expressing in this one versus a Mahogony Enchi Pied.
I am mostly just trying to learn and better understand the influence as it’s hard to pick up on the subtle stuff when searching other listings for examples.
Thanks in advance!
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I’ll be perfectly honest, this doesn’t look yellowbelly to me. Did it genetically test positive?
The YB would be helping to bring up the orange undertones that the pied and enchi have.
The brighter borders are increased because of the yb, otherwise the mahogany and enchi would be a darker snake overall.
YB doesn’t always increase white. It can help bring the white up the sides more in other combos, but YB doesn’t usually affect pied the same way. In Pieds it tend to act more as a color enhancer the way YB comes in super orange dream combos.
Morphs that would lead to higher white % (or all white) would be spider, champagne, cinnamon, black pastel
And from what I’ve seen, sometimes Mojave or lesser can as well in combos.
