Many white spots/speckles on the belly of hatchling MBK?

[liquidzxc]

Hello friends, Is this a mexican black kingsnakes or hybrid? Breeder said its MBK, but he showed me videos of the MBK and on the belly as you can see theres a lot of white speckles and spots. Is this normal and will it be gone when it reaches adulthood?

Also i noticed on the body that it is not fully black, theres a noticeable repeating white rings pattern on it.

Thankyou.

[noodlehaus]

I don’t personally keep MBKs, but I’ve definitely heard they can hatch with faint patterning. It should darken up with age. That said, MBK lines aren’t 100% pure (as is the case with many colubrid species, it seems).

Mexican Black Kingsnake Morphs

A dirty little secret in the hobby is that all MBK bloodlines have some level of CalKing blood in them so establishing a pure species baseline would require acquisition of direct out of the wild collection. And since Mexico no longer allows exportation of their wildlife, there is pretty much zero chance of getting pure sample to RGI

[caron]

Hmmmmmmm. That is interesting. All the “pictures” I have seen the MBKs look like they are solid black…….

I can understand how people could be deceived…….

[ghoulishcresties]

Hybrid.

Infact I know someone who’s just taken on a hybrid. Person was selling as an MBK.

[logar]

It definitely looks like a cali king x Mex black hybrid to me.