Normal vs cinnamon ball python

Phred would be more of what some might call a "high gold" normal

Matilda would be a light normal

Normals come in many different shades.

Once you get an "eye" for balls, you will start to notice all of the slight variances.

Yep when I started looking at ball pythons I thought cinnamons, leopards, mojaves, and spotnoses all looked like normals. It's why I picked a pinstripe. Now I can't see how I couldn't see the differences. You just keep looking. I can't wait until my "eye" gets more advanced and I can pick out what's in a multigene ball python easier. Or how some people are so good at picking out those super subtle possible indicators of a new morph.