Kingsnake keepers-- a little help please???

[sschind]

Nice snakes Lori but I' have one problem.

Unless that is a very bad picture, that does not look like an apricot Pueblan to me. Apricots have orange highlights and an overall orangish look to the white bands and and orange cast to the red areas.

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this is not a good picture and the animal is getting ready to shed but I think you can see the orange tint to the white areas. It is possible that the photograph you posted doesn't show the true colors of the snake and if so I retract my statement. I do notice that the area that would be white in an exceptional normal specimen does have sort of a yellowish tinge this does not make it an apricot however. Just a low quality normal I have two of them that look a lot more yellow than that and they are considered normals, at least by me. Anyway, that is my take on Pueblans. If anyone cares to post different pictures or to enlighten me on the characteristics of apricots I welcome the information.