ok, I posted a belly shot, looks very clean to me. What do you all think? Can anybody tell me what the visuals are for a vanilla?
05-23-2011, 06:10 PM
Foschi Exotic Serpents
Vanillas generally have a head marking and Moustache similar to many fires. Your snake does have the clear center belly scales but you will have to breed it to see if it's a genetic morph and not just a normal.
05-23-2011, 06:40 PM
rabernet
Re: Blond Ball Python?
It looks very vanilla or fire to me. Definitely don't think it's a normal.
05-23-2011, 06:45 PM
Reesy
Re: Blond Ball Python?
Well, thanks to all for the inputs. I'm hoping there's something special in her. Guess we'll all have to wait and see. Probably be at least another year probably two before she is ready to breed. If this helps with anything. I have noticed that every time she sheds she gets lighter in color. Is this a certain characteristic for anythng?
05-23-2011, 07:03 PM
Foschi Exotic Serpents
Both fires and vanillas tend to lighten with age. Or at least hold their color. Now just choose a male to prove her out.
Fire x fire can make a super fire (black eyed Leucistic)
Fire x vanilla can make a vanilla creme.
Vanilla x vanilla can make a super vanilla which is a reduced pattern and very washed out version of a vanilla.
Look up photos of both fire and vanilla and compare to see which yours looks closest to. Vanillas often have a strange pattern. Not a normal pattern. Often with a couple random squiggles. Fires have a pattern similar to a normal with alien heads.
Then choose your male depending on what you think she may be and what you'd like to produce.