This particular cultivar is one I've produced off and on over the last several years and only decided to classify it as a distinct cultivar in 1999. Several years ago I bred an amelanistic motley into my Milk Snake Phase line with two projects in mind: (1) Produce motleys that will exhibit much more contrast between the blotches and the ground color, perhaps something akin to a Miami Phase Motley, and (2) Work towards getting the Milk Snake Phase to look much more like something you would really think of when someone thinks 'Milk Snake'. That, of course, being a completely banded corn snake with very high contrast color. So, in effect, this was killing two birds with one stone. But things never really work out like you plan them, and besides these two projects, a few other projects popped up. One of them being the Amelanistic Milk Snake Phase, and another, which I am still pondering over, that has produced some brilliantly colored animals, somewhat similar to a hypomelanistic effect, but with none of the washed out colors that hypos will sometimes have. This particular effect just makes ALL of the colors dramatically more brilliant with extreme amounts of contrast. Even the blacks look blacker than normal. And no, before you ask, NONE of this new line are for sale quite yet.
Coloration is variable with some looking like what you would expect from a Candy Cane Motley. Others will have light orange backgrounds with darker saddles with no lateral blotching to speak of. The abdomen is generally nearly patternless, sometimes with a light flecking of translucent marks or completely white at the anterior and more heavily marked with larger translucent blotching in the posterior.
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