Pied Markings?

Hullo all,

I got this little dude (or dudette) just today from somebody who is moving. He/she was free, which is neat, but is a year old and only weighs 95 grams. :(

The lady I got him from also mentioned she had a second ball python that died...she said there was "white stuff" everywhere and he started refusing to eat then died. :confused:

But all that aside....

His/her tail is nifty. Has some nice black stripes down both sides of the tail. Possible pied markings?

http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/x...o/HPIM2386.jpg
http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/x...o/HPIM2390.jpg
http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/x...o/HPIM2387.jpg
http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/x...o/HPIM2388.jpg

Sure maybe. You'd have to prove it out though. Just for reference I have a 100% proven het pied with those as well as 2 100% proven normals with them as well. Not the most reliable markers.


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Originally Posted by Homegrownscales

Sure maybe. You'd have to prove it out though. Just for reference I have a 100% proven het pied with those as well as 2 100% proven normals with them as well. Not the most reliable markers.


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+1......
spooky

ok here is the only time I would even think about "pied markers"

I breed a het pied to something, I want to hold back some of the possible hets, some of the offspring have the different look to them, so I hold them back hoping their het pied

other than that, its useless to even look at a snake and think it has markers. there are possibly thousands of genes that cause how a snake looks, only a handful of het pieds even have "markers". the rest that have the look is just the combination of the other thousands of possible genes.

breeding a het pied to anything,,,i wouldent even think about markers.... think about it,,, those "markers" pop up anywhere.. the only way that i would even consider "het markers" is if i produced them myself (from a pied to normal),,, and could document, and stand behind my ofspring..... *to me*,, this 66% or whatever is just a pipe dream that was promoted to pass off a few normals.. sorry if i offend anybody.. unless its 100% het, you might as well as gamble on beach front property in arazona,,,LOL
spooky

You can never be sure about the pied markers. Some het pieds have them, some normals have them.

I took pictures of my three 100% het pieds and they don't have a definite marker. You could never look at them and say they were het pieds without knowing what they came from. One of them is the double het pied/albino, but I'm not sure which one was him -I think he's the last pic.
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...Isis/088-1.jpg
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...a/Isis/128.jpg
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...sis/009-12.jpg