Pet store find ID

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This guy showed up at a local pet store and was sold to them as a normal.

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To me it looks blade with something else, anyone else have any thoughts?

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I don’t see blade at all, looks too dark

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I agree, it looks like a normal to me.

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I was initially thinking calico but it’s likely a normal.

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Fair enough, was going primarily off the reduced kind of melted alien heads and weaker saddles.

Kind of why I posted, I might be cracked, but doesn’t look “normal” to me. Maybe it’s just how distinct The color change between the posterior and anterior are combined with the pattern reduction. It’s almost calico-ish, but not extreme enough and no popcorn ing.

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Go on the marketplace and set your search to see only adult female normals and look at snakes that have already been sold. You’ll see all the things people spent years trying to prove as genetic that didn’t. I have a female people swear is a spotnose, except we’re many years into knowing she’s not. Most of my adult proven Normals don’t look like cookie cutter wild types.

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Fair enough, thanks for taking the time to look and reply guys.

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I would vote on normal or bad a example from the yellowbelly complex ( the trait not the beautiful snake)

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There’s someone online who was working on ‘reduced patterned normals’. That’s what he’s calling them, we got chatting when I used to have my Genetic Banded girl.
Unsure what came of them but looked similar to yours.

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I would’ve said a low expression yb; low quality

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I wonder, what wording should we use to grade a trait as it show in an animal ?