Reduced Pattern Normals, Non-Genetic

Where do Reduced Pattern Normals come from?? Not the genetic banded like Tigers and Diesels, but plain ole non-genetic reduced pattern normals.

I was wondering about this some days ago as I was looking at my reduced pattern spider. Could a snake such as this produce reduced pattern normals as well? They had to come from somewhere... and most likely not from being Wild Caught.

I know someone is gonna say something like "selective breeding" but the firsts reduced had to come from somewhere.

So my question to people that have been breeding for a while is, what is the usual outcome in the normals with say a parent that is a reduced pattern morph like a spider? Does that reduced pattern also carry over to the normals?

Thanks! :gj:

Ball pythons are EXTREMELY variable in the wild. So when you have such a diverse group to draw from you can make anything you want. Have you not seen all the dinker projects of striped animals and reduced pattern animals?

Even a 'non genetic' pattern will be passed along. That's the purpose of selective breeding. Pick traits you wish to see, and choose the nicest example from each succeeding generation.

I have three lines of Bandeds:
Diesels - Co-Dom with super
European Banana - Stephan Broghammer's stock (Germany)
Oscars - Our own line from CH's these guys are genetic as in they pass the trait on but It's not co-dom or recessive, just some of the babies come out banded, the nicest Oscars come from Oscar x Oscar pairing but it could just be characteristics passed down from parents, rather than a predictable recessive or co-dom gene