Orange Thing Project Update

I wish I had more to update than pictures, but the orange thing mom didn't lay this year :( I know I have a couple people on here that believe in the project so I figured I post some pics. It's still not proven hence the quotes, but I held back two females I think are hets.

First up, the "Orange Thing" with his siblings (mostly just half siblings)
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...psacc91dee.jpg

Orange Thing, Sire (the Pastel), and his full sister (from a different clutch) that I'm calling a het orange thing.
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps8b341b57.jpg

His full sister (het orange thing)
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...psfe71cd28.jpg

His full sister with a normal
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps21cbc291.jpg

A cool picture of the three of them, orange thing, het orange thing, and pastel sire
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...pseecad4d7.jpg

The sire is the uglier pastel on the top left. His daughters are the two on the bottom. I believe the uglier pastel female on the bottom left is a het orange thing since she looks so much like her sire and she was hatched pretty orange.
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...psad0d83d6.jpg

For giggles, the sire and his hold back babies (minus the pastave, he's not a hold back). The Orange Thing is the top middle
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...psc90ad53c.jpg




And some baby pics :)


The pastel daughters, the orange one is the one I'm thinking is a het orange thing
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t.../babies022.jpg

This is dam and sire to the Orange Thing when they were babies. They had a lot of orange when they were babies! They were out of a female from Africa who throws weird babies, I took on the project to see where it would lead. So far I haven't given up ;)
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...a/Isis/026.jpg

The Orange Thing as a babe
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...ding/016-4.jpg
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...ding/038-2.jpg

That thing looks pretty freaking orange to me. :)

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Originally Posted by ARamos8

That thing looks pretty freaking orange to me. :)

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Thank you :) I think he's a pretty good looking snake. Hopefully this project will prove out!


Here are a couple "glamor pics"

Orange Thing, this one didn't turn out great
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps46b5ed51.jpg

And his full sister I call a het Orange Thing
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps51da4548.jpg

Looking at the "thing's" baby pics, I looked around several breeder sites that have orange worms and I just don't see a difference. Do you know besides the obvious (color) if there is another way to identify the morph? I would like to also know if this proves out for you. That would be such a cool "diamond in the rough". :)

I just picked up a ball python baby from Petsmart (she was on sale so I couldn't help myself :P) but anyway she looks very similar to your "things". She has orange flames and also some pretty washed out whites along side the orange. I was thinking she was some kind of dinker ball. I cant wait to see what you can prove out with yours! Good Luck!

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Originally Posted by ARamos8

Looking at the "thing's" baby pics, I looked around several breeder sites that have orange worms and I just don't see a difference. Do you know besides the obvious (color) if there is another way to identify the morph? I would like to also know if this proves out for you. That would be such a cool "diamond in the rough". :)

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The orange thing is pretty easy because the color is so intense as a hatchling and stays intense for a good year. He also has orange blushing on his back and just a little bit of head fading.
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps5120206c.jpg

This is how intense he was, his black was jet black, and his face was really dark, almost jet black
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...ding/011-5.jpg

And this is a pic of his belly, even he has the tracks
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t.../babies003.jpg


The hets all seem to have tracks, mom does too. I sold the males with tracks because I really don't need them, but here is a picture of my "het orange thing" female
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...psea176a70.jpg

I was concerned about this female possibly being a het orange, but she's not the right color of orange, has a head stamp, and a normal belly
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps7d6296dd.jpg
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...psbb5ded85.jpg



Of course you have to take this all with a grain of salt, because it's unproven. Hopefully I'll get some more Orange Things next year :please: I did take him to the Iowa Herp Expo to show him off a bit and I had a lot of people stop and ask me what he was.

And an old picture of him and his momma
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...4850-3-1-1.png

I really hope this works out and you get more and more orange each year. When I first got interested in ball pythons, I looked around and was disappointed there were no ORANGE morphs! I'll be watching the progress of Orange Thing and his descendants eagerly!