Dinker Born From Spider Male x Normal Female

Hi All

I hatched out this male from a pairing between my Spider Male and Normal Female. The clutch was spot on odds wise with 1.1 spiders and 1.1 normals

He was the first to come out of the eggs and I decided to keep him back because his look is very different to what I determine as being a normal. His sister looked perfectly normal.

http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...normal_010.jpg
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...normal_013.jpg

These two pictures above show his different patterning. You can see he has a broken banded look with the dorsal scales being extremely light. It almost looks like he wanted to be a spider but decided 'no' early on during incubation.

http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...006_488984.jpg

Here is a good shot of his head. He has very prominent patches on his head and also he has a contnuation of the side-head stripe that goes right to tip of his upper lip. You can also see in this pic how light the dorsal scales are.

http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...normal_017.jpg

The belly shot. Not clear as you can see but rather very busy with this checkered look running all along his belly.

Any thoughts. I am calling him normal until bred otherwise.

These are some pics of the dam.

http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...normal_018.jpg
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...normal_019.jpg
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...normal_021.jpg

I have paired the spider male and this female again this year and am interested to see if I get similar looking hatchlings.

Breed him back to his mom to see if there's a super form.

Have you posted pics of the spiders? I'm curious to see what their patterns look like...

I'd breed him back to her as well. Cool looking BP regardless! :gj:

Thanks for the replies

My intention is to breed him back at some point, or maybe to a sibling if a suitable female is hatched out later this year.

Here are the pics of the Sire and the dinkers sister
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...normal_023.jpg
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...normal_024.jpg
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...normal_025.jpg

Interestingly you can see on the females head she has a clear stripe on the side of her head that cuts through the typical spider head pattern.

Cool looking snakes. The dinker does in fact look like he wanted to be a spider and changed his mind lol. Name him confucius lol.

I like how it has white bands around it's black markings, that's super cool!!

it looks like he has some sort of shatter woma patterns in him with awesome head markings i would deffinately have kept him too

great looking holdbacks hope he proves out for you they all look great though