Morph life spans and general health?

Are there any negative characteristics associated with particular morphs of BP? e.g. Reduced life span, increase in aggressive temperament, increased tendencies of finicky eating, etc?

Thanks!

Spiders, Champagne, and hidden gene woma have the potential to display a neurological issue. Its really nothing to worry about, but they move weird sometimes.

Carmel albinos are prone to kinking

Butter/Lesser BEL are prone to bug eyes

Super Cinny/Black Pastel are prone to duck bills

all I can think of, no morph has a different eating habit, life span, aggression, or anything like that. that just varies form snake to snake, regardless of what morph they are.

They are all pretty much the same snake with a different paint job.

I guess there are a few morph that have issues. Spiders wobble, caramels are prone to kinking, super cinnys can duck bill, super womas have horrible wobble-they might die...are they the pearls? If I'm remembering right, pearls have never made it past a month old.

Edit, he was faster than me :) I didn't realize the champagne had something weird with them. Is it similar to the spider wobble?

In the wild, there are very few benefits to having morphed genes such as in Ball Pythons.
However, as of recent studies, there are very few negative effects too.
There are some cases of people claiming their certain BP morph is infertile, but there is little scientific backing, or it is probably not the certain allele itself.

So to answer your questions more specifically:

Reduced life span - Not of our current knowledge, as BP's can live easily into their twenties in captivity, and numerous morphs have been founded since then, and have yet to die.

Aggression - I have heard the darker morphs tend to be more aggressive, like the Cinnamon and Axanthic, this is a common observation, so there is probably something behind it.

Finicky eating - Not to our knowledge, some BP's are a little more docile than others and will not eat as readily, regardless the morph.

Hope this helped, and welcome to the site!

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Originally Posted by SlitherinSisters

They are all pretty much the same snake with a different paint job.

I guess there are a few morph that have issues. Spiders wobble, caramels are prone to kinking, super cinnys can duck bill, super womas have horrible wobble-they might die...are they the pearls? If I'm remembering right, pearls have never made it past a month old.

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NERDs got a living pearl with no wobble, they just gotta figure out exactly what fixed it last I herd

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Originally Posted by OhhWatALoser

NERDs got a living pearl with no wobble, they just gotta figure out exactly what fixed it last I herd

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Huh, that will be an interesting thing to figure out!