Ghost, hypo, or just a normal?

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Originally Posted by BallPython17

Oh and to the person who said hypo/ghost are the same thing, I've been reading and I heard that a REAL Ghost is an axanthic x hypo (tell me if I'm wrong, but ima look for that article I read).

: I still think she's a ghost/hypo. lol :P lol. JK

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You're correct. Hypo x Axanthic will produce double het for 'True Ghost'.
Although if you ask a breeder if they are producing any 'ghosts', 99.9% of the time they are going to think you are talking about hypos.

As for thinking your snake is a "hypo". I think you are setting yourself up for a disappointment.

Have you seen a hypo in person?

NORMAL :gj:

Here is another kind of hypo for you (Butterscotch Hypo) and as you can tell there is a major difference.

http://stewartreptiles.com/BallPythons/Hypo/Hypo03.jpg

Here is what to look for http://www.nextworldexotics.com/hgghost.htm

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Originally Posted by Jerhart

You're correct. Hypo x Axanthic will produce double het for 'True Ghost'.
Although if you ask a breeder if they are producing any 'ghosts', 99.9% of the time they are going to think you are talking about hypos.

As for thinking your snake is a "hypo". I think you are setting yourself up for a disappointment.

Have you seen a hypo in person?

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Yea. I've seen one at a show. Thats why I keep double thinking. lol

I have to agree that its a normal. everyone has posted great pics of hypos..

Heres a Yellow also called a Butterscotch
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...o/DSC_0305.jpg

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...o/DSC_0303.jpg

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Originally Posted by Deborah

NORMAL :gj:

Here is another kind of hypo for you (Butterscotch Hypo) and as you can tell there is a major difference.

http://stewartreptiles.com/BallPythons/Hypo/Hypo03.jpg

Here is what to look for http://www.nextworldexotics.com/hgghost.htm

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And see my looks somewhat like that ones color. Especially the head. Their heads are identical. I am really gonna try to get better pics. Ima see if later today I can snatch my moms camera and hopefully take better shots. I want you guys to see what im seeing. The pics I took earlier where with my phone. But I know you guys are gonna keep thinking ima idiot. But watch if I get hypo spiders. lol

The only way you're getting hypo spiders is if you buy one. ;)

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Originally Posted by rabernet

Kevin McCurley described them as looking like someone put them in a freezer and they became covered in frost. One could argue that his normal has a faded head, but it's the overall "frosted" look that can best describe a hypo. I don't see any of that from the picture.

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My hypo almost appears to be covered in felt. He is so washed out and faded that he appears to have a fuzzy appearance, but Kevin is dead on in his description.

A hypo is unmistakable compared to a normal, plus like has already been said, if it sheds completely clear with no dark pigmentation in it that is the true mark of the hypo.

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Originally Posted by BallPython17

And see my looks somewhat like that ones color. Especially the head. Their heads are identical. I am really gonna try to get better pics. Ima see if later today I can snatch my moms camera and hopefully take better shots. I want you guys to see what im seeing. The pics I took earlier where with my phone. But I know you guys are gonna keep thinking ima idiot. But watch if I get hypo spiders. lol

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First of all we don't think you are an idiot, but we do (most of us anyway) have hypos and they are not as easily mistaken for normals as you think. And if she was sold to you by a breeder as a normal I can 200% guarantee she is a normal, because a breeder is by no means going to mistake a hypo for a normal.

And as for the hypo spider (honeybee) By breeding her to your spider IF she were a hypo you would only get spiders that were 100% het hypo.

Get better pictures and we are going to say the same thing. :gj:

BTW my avatar is the head of my hypo male. He looks nothing like any normal I've ever seen. ;)

That's not a Hypo!

Check the next shed...A Hypos shed is clear and has no pattern on it.

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Originally Posted by coldbloodaddict

That's not a Hypo!

Check the next shed...A Hypos shed is clear and has no pattern on it.

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Thats what I was gonna say, they shed clear like an albino.