Any superstripe experts out there?

Randy,

The spectors I've seen do have a very yb'ish belly but maybe less prounouced and more of a blended look...

Some who have stumbled upon it have said they thought it might be a yb prior to breeding it.

Others, such as BHB thought his might be a fire and bred it to a fire first before later proving it to be a spector by breeding to a yb.

Justin

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Originally Posted by MarkS

Well, here you go then Larry. Some belly pics of my guy. It looks pretty normal to me but I'm not sure what the belly is supposed to look like so if anyone wants to tell me if this looks good or not, I'd appreciate it. Either way he's breeding well right now so I'm sure I'll produce a few offspring out of him.

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ons/belly2.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ons/belly1.jpg

Mark

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Mark,

First of all, I'm no expert on SS! :) But my feeling is no... if i was my snake you can be sure that I'd breed it to a yb first! Or since it is a male, you could breed it to a normal and see if it passes its look on to its offspring. If so, keep back a bunch of the females for yb breedings.

GL,

Justin

http://www.bluegrassreptiles.com/ima.../posshetss.jpg

What ca think??:rolleyes:

Kinda like a het pied looking belly

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Originally Posted by Larry Suttles

http://www.bluegrassreptiles.com/ima.../posshetss.jpg

What ca think??:rolleyes:

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You sure its not a fire?

I don't the belly is right, certainly not a homerun... but hey ivories are produced by animals that are "barely" a yellow belly.

Justin

I'm pretty sure the belly looks like this...
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...normals023.jpg

Yes, note the lack of black marks in the big middle belly scale. Not terribly rare in ball pythons but I'm thinking a pretty universal trait in yellow bellies and probably also specters.

Very interesting about the fire comparison. Gets me more excited about a ch girl I'm raising up. Wish she wasn't only 1,000 grams right now.

Here my longshot is as a baby:

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/...PetMed-med.jpg

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/4924Compare-med.jpg

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First of all, I'm no expert on SS! But my feeling is no... if i was my snake you can be sure that I'd breed it to a yb first! Or since it is a male, you could breed it to a normal and see if it passes its look on to its offspring. If so, keep back a bunch of the females for yb breedings.

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Thanks Justin, I kind of was wondering about that. I was surprised when both Ralph and Jared told me it was a possibility, but I know that my luck just isn't that good. Like I said, he's breeding strong right now so it's a done deal and It'll be interesting to see what hatches. Ha, just what I needed, yet another dinkin' around project.

for anyone who is readin this thread and have no idea what they are talking about go to this link tons of superstripe pics! :)
http://imageevent.com/royalpythonrep...ripeballpython