Sunday, November 30, 2014

Pinstripe Ball Python Morph

Hello everyone! Today I'm talking about the

Pinstripe Morph
 
 
The Pinstripe Morph is a co-dom morph. This is a pattern morph that I really love. This morph is characterized by a brown over most of the body, lighter near the spinal cord and darker down the sides, and two thin dark lines running parallel down the back of the snake with extra small dark lines running down toward the belly.
 
This pattern stands on its own as a lovely morph, but it looks really good when combined with color morphs.
 
I have a fondness for the Lavender Albino Pin.
 
And the CG Pin.

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Coral Glow Pied Morph

Hello everyone! Today I'm going to talk about a special morph. This is one that I really want to own and plan to breed for one day.

The Coral Glow Piebald Morph
 
 
The Coral Glow Piebald Morph, more commonly known as the CG Pied, is a two-gene morph that is a combination of a co-dominant and recessive morph. The co-dom morph is Coral Glow, or Banana, and the recessive morph is the Piebald. I love both of these morphs individually but the combination I beautiful and I really love the way they look.
 
This morph is still fairly new in the ball python world and very few exist so far. I expect this to change as the CG Pied is a stunning animal that would be a feather in the cap of any collector who has one.

Friday, November 14, 2014

Coral Glow Ball Python

Hello dears! Im back again to inflict my basic ball python morph knowledge upon you yet again. So today I'm going to talk about the Coral Glow ball python  morph.
 
Coral Glow Morph
 
 The Coral Glow Morph is a co-dominant morph with a Super form that has finally been discovered. Coral Glows haven't been around for very long and they have this weird breeding thing that has an interesting effect on the sex of their offspring. Now, don't take my word as God's law or anything, but it would appear that if a male Coral Glow who was sired by another male Coral Glow produces offspring, any Coral Glow babies will likely be male that breed out other males. If a male is produced from a female, most of its children will be female. Like I said, weird right? There was some debate about it being a sex linked gene but I think that was debunked and I can't say why it happens its just an interesting quirk to this morph.
 
Baby Coral Glows look a bit different from adult Coral Glows
 
The Coral Glow morph is a lovely morph that is a very bright color. Young Coral Glows are very neon on the part of a normal that is a brown and the part of the snake that is black on a normal is a purple or lavender which makes the bright orange stand out even more. As they grow, this morph will gain speckles of black and the colors will fade out just a bit so that it isn't quite as bright.
 
These are brothers from the same clutch, you see the speckling coming in?
 
Super Coral Glow
 
You remember how I said the Super form is new? I do have one picture for you of the Super though.
 
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Sunday, November 9, 2014

The Spied Ball Python

Hello lovely people! Today Im going to talk about a morph that is vvery cool. It is still a two gene morph but it is super awesome.

The Spider Piebald Morph
 
 
The Spider Piebald ball python (usually referred to as a Spied) is a snake that has both the piebald and spider gene visibly expressed at one time. You may recall in a previous post that I made about Pieds I said that they are a recessive morph, so both parents must have the gene for the babies to have a chance at visibly expressing this morph. The Spider gene is a co-dominant or dominant gene and only one parent needs to have this gene and there is no way that a snake that doesn't look like a spider can be a spider, but a snake that carries the pied morph may be Het. pied because the snake must get the gene from both parents for it to be expressed.
 
Anyways, you get a Spied from breeding a spider het. pied to a pied or a het. pied. However, your best bet for a spied is for the parent without the spider gene to be a visible pied. This increases the odds that you can breed this snake exponentially.
 
Until next time, you guys have a great week!