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!

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.