Bumblebee Morph

Hello everyone! Happy November to you all! Today I'm going to be talking about a new kind of morph. This is the Bumblebee Ball Python and this is a Two-Gene Morph

Two-Gene Morph

So what is a two-gene morph? Well two-gene morphs are basically what is says on the tin. A two-gene morph animal contains two genes, or two basic morphs, that are both visibly expressed on the snake. An example of this is sort of like the Super thing that I talked about last week. "Super" morphs are what happens when the co-dominate gene is expressed twice, almost as if they were separate genes. However, supers are not considered to be two-gene morphs the theory is the same. 

TL:DR A baby snake has a special gene from mommy and a different special gene from daddy that combine to make a super awesome looking snake.

And that leads us too.....

The Bumblebee Morph

So the bumblebee morph is a lovely animal that is a mix of two morphs I've talked about in the past, the Spider morph and the Pastel morph. (Both of which I have so this may be a future breeding project for me.) This morph can be recognized by having the lovely pattern of the spider morph but the bright yellow of the pastel, normally with high sections of white up the side of the snake. They do have a bit of a wobble because they do have the spider in them but it is not normally as pronounced as the spiders tend to have

Well thats all for this week. See you next weekend. Night!

Map For a School Project

So here is a list of the JaxPark public pools that I made for a school project. Anyone local can use this.

Lessers and the BEL complex

So today I'm going to talk about a morph that is part of the BEL complex.

The BEL Complex

What is the BEL Complex? Well BEL stands for Blue-Eyed Leucistic or Black-Eyed Leucistic. The BEL complex is the Super form of 4 morphs. One of these morphs is the Lesser. BELs are a completely white snake with blue or black eyes, although most of the time the eyes are blue.

The Lesser Morph

Lessers are a snake that is different shades of honey brown. They do not normally have the black that normal ball pythons have and ten to be a tan color instead of brown. They have high blushing up the side of their body and when crossed with other morphs will intensify the colors of the baby snake.

Jacksonville Hidden Gems for School

Well today I'm back to my normal sunday. Before I talk about the morph of the day, I'm going to mention that all of you (if you live in Jacksonville) should go visit Superhero Hive, a comic book store that I go to. So Yeah, Go visit that or other places on the Jacksonville Hidden Gems Project.

Albino Morph

Well isn't this just lovely, I'm ahead of the ball game this weekend. Once again I'm posting on a Friday. Its nice right?

Well anyways, Today I am going to be talking about Albino Ball Pythons.

Albino Ball Pythons

Albino ball pythons are one of the oldest ball python morphs available. All animals have the albino trait somewhere in their genes so people weren't really surprised when they found the albino ball python. However, the bright colors and red eyes that characterize the albino ball python are still very popular today and sell for a decent price. You can probably find a male for about $300 which is the far cry from the thousands of dollars people paid for albino ball pythons when they first entered the industry.

Spider Morph

WOAH. Look at this, I'm posting on a Friday! I have some family visiting this weekend so I wont be able to post on sunday.

BUT that's not why you are here. Ball Pythons are why you are here. And today I introduce to you,

The Spider Morph

Spiders are characterized by the stripe dark down the back with smaller line striping down like spiders legs on its back! They are also lighter than most normals with the white from their bellies coming up their sides. They also tend to have a yellow tint to their brown spots.

Spiders are a Dominant gene. People used to think the Spider gene was co-dominant, but because this morph doesn't have a super form (I'll talk more about super forms next week) most people in the snake world no longer believe that it is co-dominant and simply a dominant gene.

When you have a clutch where one parent is normal and the other is a spider you have a 50% chance that the babies could be either.

I think Spiders are awesome and I do actually have one. However, I don't have pictures of my boy.

Alright you guys, thats everything from me this week. Hopefully I'll see you next week!

Piebald Morph

So this weeks topic is the Piebald Ball Python, also known as the Pied ball python. This is a ball python that I would LOVE to own.

 

 This is such a gorgeous specimen. It's not mine, it is actually the picture from the Wikipedia page about this kind of ball python.

The piebald gene is a recessive gene, which is different from my Pastel, Persephone, which is a co-dominant gene, or my normal, Jasmine, which is a dominant gene.

The Pied gene causes babies who express it to have random patterns of a lack of pigmentation on their scales. This means that the amount of white that mom and dad have does not in any way determine how much white the baby ball pythons will have. I love all Pieds, high-white, like the picture above, or low white, but I think that the highwhites are the prettiest.