Is my baby a morph? Opinions please! :D

[gillianc]

I got my little baby a couple of weeks ago off somebody on Kijiji. He said that he wasn't sure what she was but he thinks that she is heit for something. She's 5 months old! She usually feeds on f/t rats, but today I fed her live and it was amazing!! Her name is Nagini.

The person I got her from was pretty sure that it was a heit for orange ghost.. Reasons he thinks this is 1 because her pattern is different than a normals.. another reason is because her head is very light brown. Her belly also has no markings at all on it, its clear of markings.

Hope you can help me figure it out or give me some thoughts and opinions!

[The Serpent Merchant]

Normal.

By definition you cannot see any visual differences between a het and a normal. A few recessive morphs have what we call markers, but they aren't 100% reliable, and in many cases overstated IMO.

Unless you know what the parents of the snake were there isn't any reason to suspect that the snake is het for anything.

[sho220]

Het for normal...

[KMG]

A het animal appears normal but will have morph babies. Your appears normal in the pics but you will only know for sure by breeding it.

[PyramidPythons]

Looks like a pretty Normal to me. The only way to know for sure about the hets is 1) buy from a reputable breeder who guarantees genetics or 2) breeding trials. Some hets have what are called "markers", but the points you brought up are all pretty par for Normals, and not all hets have the markers either. Normals vary greatly, so without knowing the genetics of the snake, there is no definite way to know if your snake is het for anything without breeding. btw, welcome to the addiction!

[The Serpent Merchant]

A het animal appears normal but will have morph babies. Your appears normal in the pics but you will only know for sure by breeding it.

If paired with another snake that carries the necessary genes. (that part is important lol)

[gillianc]

Thank you!! She is gorgeous

And I will breed her when she is big enough for sure! I'm going to breed her with one of the males that the person I bought her from has.

and thank you for the welcoming! I have wanted one for a very long time and finally got her She's perfect. She shed all in one peice and she loves her hide. She's settled in

[gillianc]

So try breeding with snakes that we may think its genes are heit for?

[The Serpent Merchant]

It's het, not heit drop the "i". Het is short hand for heterozygous.

If you want to try to prove that the snake carries the orange ghost genes, then you ill need to breed it to a snake that is known to carry the orange ghost genes. Preferable a visual (homozygous)

[RoseyReps]

Yes, breed her with an orange ghost if you truly think she's het OG. I would not breed her to a 100% het OG personally, as then you are dealing with possible het offspring. Just my

Honestly though, I would probably not go for proving her out without knowing her parents, as the chances of being het for whatever morph you guess is pretty far out there, but you never know Stranger things have and do happen.