spotnose? (yea i know, another one)

[Izzys Keeper]

i just aquired this girl. she was really skinny but quite long. her coloration is really really light, she almost looks something like a redtail. anyways i was intrigued and maybe thought she had something going on with her. she has 2 little spots on her nose and her pattern is more "banded" and crossing over her back than any of my other ones are. does she have something special or just a pretty normal? the last pic shows the color best i guess but even that doesnt represnt her to the fullest. also is there anything special about a spotnose???? or is it just a fancy normal

[Kaorte]

Spotnose ball pythons are used to make power balls, so no, they are not just a fancy normal.

That does not look like a spotnose to me. Just a nice looking normal.

[Foschi Exotic Serpents]

Not a spotnose, but it may be one of the other decreased melanin morphs. Like a fire or vanilla. Once again, no one will say it is or isnt before it is bred and proved out.

I have 2 vanillas at this point but only one is a proven vanilla. The other is a captive hatched twin to the first in looks, pattern, color, everything but I could never try to market her as a vanilla until I breed her and prove it. If a snakes genetic background is unknown all you can do is get some opinions as to what it may be and then choose future breeding plans that will prove this out.

Good luck with your new one. It is defiantely a beauty and my opinion is that it may very well turn out to be one of the two morphs I named here. The skull pattern on the head and the lip spots is what makes me think this but it is missing the mustache of a vanilla. Only breeding will tell

[LadyOhh]

Not a Spotnose.

[dr del]

Hi,

As people have said it's not unusual for normals to have those boogers.

Heres is one I hatched in 2008.



If you look at spotnoses the nose spot they talk about is in the middle of the nose not off to the sides and they are only part of the pattern chracteristics. (er I think. )


dr del

[Izzys Keeper]

ok thanks for everyones imput