Need the help of bp.net experts identifying bp

Hey everyone, a friend of mine purchased this animal back in December at a show as a vanilla. He was unable to care for the snake so I took the little guy in :gj: I have not worked with vanillas yet and I am certainly no expert at identifying them. I work like to breed him with a fire in the future but didn't want to waste a whole year if he is a normal :rolleyes:

So my fellow bp friends what do you guys and girls think!

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http://i40.tinypic.com/dvn7di.jpg

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That looks like a normal. I'm not good identifying vanillas so I could be wrong, but they usually have a very distinct headstamp

Normal. This is a vanilla
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Very pretty but a normal

Looks like a light normal. Here is a picture of our vanilla for comparison help.
http://i1077.photobucket.com/albums/...07009788_n.jpg
http://i1077.photobucket.com/albums/...54659791_n.jpg

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Originally Posted by dart

Looks like a light normal. Here is a picture of our vanilla for comparison help.
http://i1077.photobucket.com/albums/...07009788_n.jpg
http://i1077.photobucket.com/albums/...54659791_n.jpg

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Thank you, awesome animal! He looks lighter then a few normal's I have so I wasn't quite sure. I heard vanillas lighten as they grow so I was keeping my fingers crossed as this little guy grows.

What breeeder did he come from though?

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Originally Posted by Capray

What breeeder did he come from though?

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Not sure exactly, my friend bought him at Scott Smith all animal expo around December he said.

Looks like a Normal, but yes, Vanillas do lighten as they age. :)

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Originally Posted by WmHrbst

Thank you, awesome animal! He looks lighter then a few normal's I have so I wasn't quite sure. I heard vanillas lighten as they grow so I was keeping my fingers crossed as this little guy grows.

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He's a normal. He won't lighten and his color won't change. He has none of the vanilla traits. If you look at the pics others have posted you'll notice that vanillas have a particular head stamp, a slightly different type of pattern, and the color is different. It's not just a color that looks like a light normal. It's an entirely different color.

They also have clean bellies, and often *don't have a lot of flames.

I hate that people are always selling snakes claiming they are something other than what they are. I also hate to keep seeing new keepers/breeders just buying anything they can without knowing anything about that particular morph first. As long as people keep buying on a whim, before they know the morphs and breeders, there will always be people willing to sell them a normal as a morph.

It sucks your friend was lied to. I hope he didn't pay a lot for that BP.