He Claims Dinker I say Normal

But will find out one day... He has the coolest personality of all my babies. He did look different than all of his normals, but no 2 snakes are exact. The reason he thought possible "dinker" was because of the spot on his head, and he is a lot lighter than most normals. I have pictures of him on my new babies thread but thought I would get some opinions here. Normal or not, he is awesome!

http://i.imgur.com/hxhJ3EZ.jpg
His favorite spot... he will sit there and just peek out :D

http://i.imgur.com/1rmLsca.jpg
Belly. To me looks normal, but i'm newb

http://i.imgur.com/xMAP9IV.jpg
Love his pattern and the bright white around all his "heads"

http://i.imgur.com/idb876u.jpg
His head, you can kinda see the spot he was mentioning.

http://i.imgur.com/A57aTxZ.jpg
Better shot of his body.

When I get time ill take better pictures using the whole litebox idea :D


The Parents were YB and Mojave I belive.

I would call him a normal, but any trait could be genetic. Dinkers are "normal" ball pythons that somebody sees a visual trait in and tries to prove out. Thus, they 'dink' with the snake and try to prove out a trait to try to prove it as something other than a normal.

"Dinkers" are normals until proven otherwise...

Yeah. My daughters liked saying dinker so it stuck. He has some cool traits. So we will see

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Some people do call bp dinker by mistake or by lack of knowledge of a morph. Was just seeing if any genetics scream out

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i see nothing unusual. well, he has a head stamp / mark on top of the head, but normals can have that.

he looks really cute, and the way you describe his personality makes me thing that he is an excellent pet.

Oh he is awesome. Completely the opposite of my het pied male

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I did get to hold him today though (the het pied male)

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The head screams spotnose to me (the markings on the top of the head and the tip of the nose), but the belly seems pretty light and I cant see the spotnose contrast I normally look for.

I'll get better pics today

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Spot noses on wobp just not as a prime example. All fine to me regardless. He has the coolest personality. But being that spot nose is co-dom does that means there is a super right?

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Here is my het pied next to dinker. This is my male that is kinda shy. He is now finally crawling all over me vs being in a ball. The main difference is more patterns. The head stamp. And dinker is black where spaz is a duller black. And dinker has more patterning and shines more. Still both pretty snakes. I'm picking up a pastel het pied tonight. Can't wait!

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OK. I messed up the genetics. He is from a YB to normal female. He didn't look very YB to the breeder but wasnt the same as all the normals that's why he says dinker. So I have a poor YB, a normal, or super secret squirrel morph

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Do you happen to have pics of the parents? because besides him being a little darker and the belly not being as "busy" i would say it is a dead ringer for a spotnose, I have seen BP's with spots on their head but that one is very distinctive to spotnose. you have at the very least a 50% chance of it being something genetic. here is a pic of my spotnose as a baby i would say that's a pretty spot on head pattern comparison(no pun intended)

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...0-28132448.jpg

Yeah and the neck patterning too. We will see what happens. As for the parents I don't have any pictures of them.

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Likely normal. Could possibly have a minor gene or two that are not extreme enough to be declared an official morph. But he's def pretty. :)

Edit: I'm not an expert on spotnose though.*

Oh he's great. Coolest personality ever. My pastel is super pretty too

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Im really thinking spotnose.

His eyes are starting to blue so a shed is in the near future. Will post IP puics

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He will get bred out, but seen the post that someone put up from breeding a YB to normal and got those striped snakes. Do you think dinker could be a Harlequin? It looks like a very subtle morph that could look normalish

If not he's a dog... LOL

NVM. Ill breed him out in a year or 2 and post up results LOL STAY TUNED!