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!

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!