Yellow bellies? weird stripe babies?

So what exactly makes a Harlequin?
and what does a Harlequin make? :)
then, would that make the striped babies Harlequin?
Mos of the other discussions I have seen about them don't have a full stripe like these.

Mom is a yb, dad is a normal.
There's nothing specterish about either adults.
I'm not sure about either adults being harlequin, but that striped baby sure appears to be one. I'd be holding back a striped male to breed to mom, if it was of interest to you.

Not that I am knocking what you are saying (I'm sure you have a lot more experience), but most people (local breeders, people at shows) think that dad has to have contributed something to get these, if not you would think it would be visible in the mom. Maybe something recessive and mom and dad both had it? does seem like a stretch.

or maybe it was just incubation issues, and I'm just spinning my wheels :)

Those are amazing babies!! Dont put a yb to mom, dont do that. Put a male hatchling back to mom or repeat the same pairing!!

With the money then you get an ivory! ;) Congratz, they are awesome!!

yeah, this year, going to repeat the same, and see what happens. Then when the boys get big enough, put them with mom to see what happens. Then eventually probably put the normalish looking one (only female) either with one of the stripped males, or dad to see what happens.

a few people locally say the normal looking baby is not normal, or not just a YB, but I'm not sure... I guess we will see what pops out.

I wish I could take hatchling number one off your hands I think hes really cute! The pattern on the back of his head kind of looks like a stretched heart to me. :P They are very pretty and I'm glad you were able to keep most of your clutch! Sorry that you had such a fearful baby sitter also, it must of been hard to leave the eggs and even harder to find some of the snakes had moved on.:please:

Sorry I can't help you discern what breed the father is or the hatchlings but they are all very beautiful!!! I wish I could buy them.

I also think you should keep one since its your first set of hatchlings! :)

well I came across this girl that I had to get to put with my better male stripe:

http://www.1bad69.com/gallery/pets/s...lestripe/1.jpg
http://www.1bad69.com/gallery/pets/s...lestripe/2.jpg
http://www.1bad69.com/gallery/pets/s...lestripe/3.jpg

I probably paid to much, but really wanted to see what happens when mixed with my male I just hatched last year.
This one was a captive hatched one from Africa, could be the same thing mine is.

here is a pic of my male I hatched out (from the first page of the thread)
http://www.1bad69.com/gallery/pets/s...1/img_2893.jpg

cant go wrong with her.. I must say in my opinion nothing is better than working on a project you never know what can come out of it....:D

I just found this today, I think this may be what I have:
super x-tream gene
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/mo...-x-treme-gene/

it would explain it, if mom is a YB x-tream, and dad is an X-treme.

Super awesome babies! Love that brilliant stripe!