ball python color change

Any balls get lighter or stay the same as their birth colors besides dark ball pythons and lessers. Pastels & axanthics brown out and het reds stay as dark so what still looks good or relatively the same after birth???

albinos, LA, CA, bumblebees, super phantoms, butters, mojos, leucistics, crystal, sterling, black widow, banana, white smoke, coral glow, jester, desert balls, pewters, and many more.

I've heard fires tend to lighten as they age. Same for caramels. Not sure if the peak but I think both look better after the hatchling stage than right at it. Ghost might be the same.

I SAW A BUMBLEBEE PIC FROM KEVIN MCURLEYS BOOK and it looked like a light spider at most, i saw a 3 yr old mojo and the blushings darkened up!!

Enchi's lighten up - I don't know that I agree that pewters lighten with age. The ones I've seen got darker.

I've had my morphs since they were babies and only two got a lighter color now that they are adults: My butterscotch ghosts and my albinos.

I think they look cool no matter what age...

balls r cool regardless but i want my ball to look more like when i bought him, i just saw my friends super pastels and they are 4 and 5yrs and man do they look like poor mans pastel. my lesser seems lighter as he gets older!!!

any other snakes get lighter with age???

oh yeah, lemon pastels seem to keep there color as compared to other lines of pastels. Mind u every line has b grading colors so...

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Originally Posted by ang3l3s

oh yeah, lemon pastels seem to keep there color as compared to other lines of pastels. Mind u every line has b grading colors so...

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I agree, I think a lot of what you tend to get will depend on the quality of the animals they are bred from. I personally have a bell line lemon super pastel and he hasn't browned out a bit thus far. BTW he came from a super pastel x pastel pairing, so the lineage already had very bright yellows. I think it behooves breeders to try and show some restraint in breeding and try to truely breed top quality animals rather than say a browned out pastel x normal, and sell the babies as BRIGHT yellow snakes. That's how the prices drop so fast and people won't necessarily want to spend more for the top quality animal. my $0.02