Axanthic ?

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Originally Posted by Kryptonian

like I said the vid has a color difference too. Our oak cabinet looks like redwood. In person he just doesnt look normal, especially when compared to a normal.Ill know when I breed him.

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Only if you have an adult female axanthic or het axanthic of the correct line. Buying an adult female het VPI and het TSK axanthic (the two most common lines) is going to be a very expensive way of 'proving out' a rescue animal.

Good luck with it, but please don't let it near your established animals again, no they can't catch scale rot but they CAN catch dozens of FAR worse ailments that you can't tell are there just by having the snake for a short while.

To me that snake doesn't look like an axanthic, just a sick ball python. Start worrying about its health before worrying about if it's a morph or not and breding it! If the snake has obvious external signs of illness then it could have far worse underlying problems.

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Originally Posted by mason

Only if you have an adult female axanthic or het axanthic of the correct line. Buying an adult female het VPI and het TSK axanthic (the two most common lines) is going to be a very expensive way of 'proving out' a rescue animal.

Good luck with it, but please don't let it near your established animals again, no they can't catch scale rot but they CAN catch dozens of FAR worse ailments that you can't tell are there just by having the snake for a short while.

To me that snake doesn't look like an axanthic, just a sick ball python. Start worrying about its health before worrying about if it's a morph or not and breding it! If the snake has obvious external signs of illness then it could have far worse underlying problems.

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wow talk about jumping to conclusion. The other snake is also in qaurantine, I have limited space so when I get a new animal from an unknown source they go in the same area. Unfortunately I live in an open basement so quaratine options are few.
No one said I plan to buy any axanthic for him to breed. Like most dinkers I will breed him and keep a female to breed back, thats not all that expensive,
Just becuase I am curious to his possibility of being a morph doesnt mean I dont have his best intentions in mind. Yes he is not in the best shape, but remember I didnt put him there, hes not the first nor will he be the last snake that I take in to better its life. He is underweight but not as bad as others I have seen. His scale rot is also very minor and I have no doubt will disapeer with his next shed. So please dont accuse me of not caring about his health. I can care for him and be curious of his genetics at the same time. There is nothing wrong with making future plans to breed a rescue unless that rescue has problems that breeding would affect, eg kinks etc. If I turn him around and he becomes a healthy normal bp then I will breed him. I just like to think about what could be done in the future. As for now he is reciving the best care he can get. I have taken in a number of less than healthy animals in the last few months and they are all thriving and doing way better than before I go them. And a couple of them are future breeders.

I think what he is saying is that to prove him out you would need a het axanthic or axanthic that is the same line. Breeding a possible axanthic to a normal will just give you a bunch of possible hets (they will all look normal). So there would be no way to tell if he is actually axanthic by breeding him to a normal. I mean, you could, it would just take a few breeding seasons and to be honest, you will probably end up with a lot of normals.

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Originally Posted by Kaorte

I think what he is saying is that to prove him out you would need a het axanthic or axanthic that is the same line. Breeding a possible axanthic to a normal will just give you a bunch of possible hets (they will all look normal). So there would be no way to tell if he is actually axanthic by breeding him to a normal. I mean, you could, it would just take a few breeding seasons and to be honest, you will probably end up with a lot of normals.

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yes as I stated I will breed him and hold back a female and breed it back to him, This is how you proove out dinkers especially if its a reccesive gene you may have. In this case having a few normals is ok especilaly if he does proove out to be axanthic.