Is my ball python a morph... PLEASE HELP im new

[BbyBoa]

the issue is i took it to a different pet store today that carries only rare animals and he had some regular and morph ball pythons and mine was 10 times brighter and even he said mine had a nice rare golden color. the shop i got mine from said she thinks it was from a pastel experiment and was 1 of the darker 1s so the sold it as a normal..

They sold it as a normal because its a normal.

[SlitherinSisters]

Unfortunately not everyone that sells ball pythons knows ball pythons. Your bp is a normal, no question about it. Even crappy pastels can still be picked out as pastels. Normals very greatly in color and pattern. I threw 4 of my normal girls together to show the difference in them. I'm guessing your bp is like my really bright high gold girl. She's a normal from a pastel pairing so that's probably the reason she is so bright, but then her sister is the really brown one on the bottom right, so you never know what you'll get!


Welcome to the site! He/she is a good looking bp!

As for genetics on pastels, I'll give you a quick overview. Pastels are a codom or co-dominate morph. Which means two things, one they have a super form, and two they are visual morph. Visual morphs either are or aren't a morph so if they don't look like a pastel they don't carry any of the pastel genes and can't make a pastel when breed to another normal. Breeding a pastel to a normal about 50% of the clutch will be pastels and the other 50% will be normals.