Hypo, but something else?
Looking for ID help on a girl I picked up from Craigslist a few weeks back. A little backstory:
I found an ad on my local CL advertising "Yellow/Dark Pastel Ghost Ball Python". Here's a screen grab of the ad.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y28...pics/CL_ad.jpg
I paid less than asking price and picked up all three snakes in the picture, but the two morphs were questionable. The Dark Pastel is really a cinny, no question (maybe het hypo, but I don't see ghost in him). The "Yellow Pastel Ghost" was in shed. I posted a couple of pics from my point and shoot camera to get ID opinions, but the pics weren't so good and with her in shed, it was impossible to tell. Almost all opinions on her were just plain hypo.
So, this weekend I bit the bullet and bought a good camera (Canon T3i) and decided to snap a couple pics. I'm going to be building a light tent in the next few days so I can do a real photo shoot of everyone. Anyway, I wanted to post a few that I took of this girl to see if I can get some new opinions based on the new pics. The color still doesn't look exactly right, but it's much closer... Anyway, I'm still not really sure about pastel hypo, but she also doesn't look like any pics of a normal hypo I've ever seen. I have another thought on her from looking at WOPB, but I wanted to get other opinions without saying...
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y28...ps8a4a8b3c.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y28...psb5d6a66a.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y28...psa786a828.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y28...ps8892f0c1.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y28...pscdbbabe7.jpg
And one in direct sunlight...
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y28...ps1b8380de.jpg
Thoughts??? Thanks for looking...
Re: Hypo, but something else?
Not a pastel hypo, looks like a hypo...
Re: Hypo, but something else?
I'm just seeing a nice hypo. Did you confirm genders?
Re: Hypo, but something else?
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Originally Posted by
Annarose15
I'm just seeing a nice hypo. Did you confirm genders?
Yes, all three genders were confirmed by me when I picked them up. It's hard to describe her true colors. She looks more grey in real life than she comes out in pics, but that could just be the hypo. I should have snapped a belly shot too. Her belly is CLEAN, pure white...
Re: Hypo, but something else?
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Originally Posted by
lovepig78
Maybe she's a yellow ghost or green ghosts?
looks kinda bright for an orange ghost.... Or maybe she is just a smoker
I've looked at orange ghost and green ghost and the colors just aren't right. I hadn't looked at yellow ghost, but you may be onto something there. I just looked at pics on WOBP and that's MUCH closer to her colors than OG. Couple that with the description of "Yellow Pastel Ghost" and I'm thinking the original owner may have just added the "pastel" in there...
The only other theory I have at the moment would be fire ghost. Looking at the coloration, the headspot and the clean belly, she very closely resembles the ones on WOBP.
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/fire-ghost/
Re: Hypo, but something else?
Re: Hypo, but something else?
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Originally Posted by
Freakie_frog
Looks like an adult hypo to me..
She's only about a year old and 300ish grams... (I don't have the exact hatch date, but the girl I got her from said she was about a year old. She also told me she's smaller because morphs don't grow as quickly as normals, which was also a warning sign to question everything...)
