Hello! I'm trying to learn more about genetics. So post some of your crazy or even some simple ball pythons and tell me the morphs!
10-16-2017, 11:59 AM
tttaylorrr
Re: Let's see some balls
Albino, which is a recessive gene https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...ce640e6ccf.jpg
Banana/Coral Glow (same gene, different lines), an incomplete or co-dominant gene https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...4476f95e37.jpg
Super Cinnamon with paradox markings: Cinnamon is an incomplete or co-dominant gene, which produces a "super" form when the animal contains two copies of the incomplete dominant gene. super morphs pass down a copy of their gene to every offspring they produce, so all babies she would produce would contain the Cinnamon gene. the paradox markings are completely random occurrences that happen during gestation/incubation. technically, they shouldn't be there. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...8098b80d9b.jpg
Normal Piebald, where normal is dominant and piebald is recessive. if he were to breed, all his offspring would contain one copy of the recessive piebald gene (100% het pied), which would not show visually on the babies, but they would be able to produce piebald babies if bred with another snake containing the piebald gene. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...6be399a70e.jpg
(anyone please correct me if i've gotten some stuff wrong! [emoji3])
10-16-2017, 12:06 PM
JodanOrNoDan
Take a look at my gallery and see if you can figure out what they are.
Possible genes...
Phantom
Enchi
Mojave
Lavender Albino
Yellowbelly
Gravel
Pinstripe
Spider
Pastel
Normal
Pastel - Co-dom morph, makes the more yellow coloration and makes the pattern more messy
Butter/Lesser - Same morph just two different lines, Co-dom that’s super for is a Blue Eyed Lucy. Causes more blushing and makes the animal more of a cream color.
Congo - A lesser known morph, effects each morph a different way. Most popular use is with Pastel as it cleans up the pattern and helps the animal hold its color and keeps the pattern from getting muddy with age.
Hypo/Ghost - Same morph just called by different names. She is actually an Orange Ghost, one of the many lines of ghost. It is a recessive morph, some of the different lines are compatible some are not. I don’t know which are not off the top of my head sorry. Makes the animal looks like it’s always in shed due to the duller pattern and this specific line adds an orange tent to the animal. Sheds also have no pattern.
Spider - Co -Dom morph with a fatal super. Pattern morph that causes the more reduced pattern and the unique head markings
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10-16-2017, 06:10 PM
hollowlaughter
Pinstripe, but from a busy-patterned Jigsaw sire. Definitely a bit different than other pins, spazhime's Thresh coming to mind has a lot more reduced patterning compared to my Pollux (seen below), who looks a lot more like the Pinstripes out of Northwestern Reptiles. Might be related.
There at World of Ball Pythons they have 5,698 morphs listed with new ones added every day, too many to even see if you spent weeks looking at them all! With hundreds of base morphs the combinations are almost endless.
This is my 3 year old Wild Type Normal ball python. Out of all the Morphs out there the Normals seem to have the most variation. Some are lighter or darker with varying degrees of patterning.
This is my Black Eyed Leucistic ball python. He is the super form of the Fire gene. The fire gene is a Co-Dominant mutation and when an animal has two copies of this fire gene you end up with a white, black eyed snake.
This is my Firefly female. The firefly morph is a combination of two Co-Dominant Morphs. This is where both one copy of the fire gene and one copy of the pastel gene are present in the animal. Some Morphs have names given to them based on their Morphs rather than there morph name. The firefly is one example and another would be something like a Bumblebee (has one copy of the Pastel gene and one copy of the Spider gene) or a Queeenbee (Has one copy of the Pastel gene, one copy of the Spider gene and one copy of the lesser gene)
Finally this is my Crystal ball python. A very friendly little girl who genetically has one copy of the Mojave gene and one copy of the Special gene. Again this is an example where an animal is given a new name based on its genetics.
