Is my ball python a morph... PLEASE HELP im new

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looks like a really nice normal to me.

if you didnt buy it as a morph most times its not

Looks normal to me, but very nice.

the issue is i took it to a different pet store today that carries only rare animals and he had some regular and morph ball pythons and mine was 10 times brighter and even he said mine had a nice rare golden color. the shop i got mine from said she thinks it was from a pastel experiment and was 1 of the darker 1s so the sold it as a normal..

'Normal' has a large range of variations alien heads with spots, no spots, dark ones and light ones all normal. Yours is quite bright and a great heathy looking snake. the bright yellow back stripes are quite striking. Who cares if it is a normal or not, it is a good looking animal and seems quite healthy and he is yours. They are all unique, no two are exactly alike.

Normal for sure :) Very beautiful! Normals range so greatly in color, I have four myself and each are SO different from the other.

im just thinking about breeding her and it would help if i could tell what i would get. I love her so much and i dont care other than for that reason to me she is more beautiful than any ive seen

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Originally Posted by psi_mike

the issue is i took it to a different pet store today that carries only rare animals and he had some regular and morph ball pythons and mine was 10 times brighter and even he said mine had a nice rare golden color. the shop i got mine from said she thinks it was from a pastel experiment and was 1 of the darker 1s so the sold it as a normal..

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you can get normals in a clutch produced by a pastel. pastels also have green eyes, this should answer your maybes.

No doubt it's a normal.

I've got 6 normals and 3 het pied normals and not one of them looks alike. I've seen normals range from deep brown/black body color with burnt orange markings to pale caramel bodies with sand colored markings, they are all still normals.

Gale

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im just thinking about breeding her and it would help if i could tell what i would get. I love her so much and i dont care other than for that reason to me she is more beautiful than any ive seen

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It's a normal, high gold normal but still a normal.
If you breed another normal to it you get all normals.
High gold normals are great for breeding other bright snakes to IE: Pastel, Fire, Cinnamon if you want light colored cinnies, pinstripe, spider, etc.
Since they said your snake comes from a pastel (experiment?) then your snake is one of the normals from that breeding.

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Originally Posted by psi_mike

the issue is i took it to a different pet store today that carries only rare animals and he had some regular and morph ball pythons and mine was 10 times brighter and even he said mine had a nice rare golden color. the shop i got mine from said she thinks it was from a pastel experiment and was 1 of the darker 1s so the sold it as a normal..

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They sold it as a normal because its a normal. :D

Unfortunately not everyone that sells ball pythons knows ball pythons. Your bp is a normal, no question about it. Even crappy pastels can still be picked out as pastels. Normals very greatly in color and pattern. I threw 4 of my normal girls together to show the difference in them. I'm guessing your bp is like my really bright high gold girl. She's a normal from a pastel pairing so that's probably the reason she is so bright, but then her sister is the really brown one on the bottom right, so you never know what you'll get!
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Welcome to the site! He/she is a good looking bp!

As for genetics on pastels, I'll give you a quick overview. Pastels are a codom or co-dominate morph. Which means two things, one they have a super form, and two they are visual morph. Visual morphs either are or aren't a morph so if they don't look like a pastel they don't carry any of the pastel genes and can't make a pastel when breed to another normal. Breeding a pastel to a normal about 50% of the clutch will be pastels and the other 50% will be normals.