New to forum please help

[MalachiJ]

Was just wondering what some of the abbreviations mean, can't think of any right now nut I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. I know what cb (captive bred) ch (captive hatched) are but other than that I'm at a loss. Also what do the "0.1 bp" type things mean under the comment. Thanks!!

[Daigga]

Lots of little things. Mostly when talking about an animals origination, wc is wild caught, cb or ch means they were born or hatched in captivity, and cbb means they were born and bred in captivity. The numbers denote sex. 1.0 is a male, 0.1 is a female, 0.0.1 is unsexed. So if I had 2.3.1 normal ball pythons, I would have two males, three females, and one I either hadn't or couldn't sex for some reason (you don't see unsexed often in reference to snakes, though it may be more common in lizards).

Other abbreviations could include RI, which is a respiratory infection (one of the more common bp ailments). Then there are some other terms, such as dom, codom, or recessive. In reference to various traits, dom is dominant, recessive is recessive, and a codom is an incomplete dominant, or essentially a dominant trait that expresses itself differently in its homozygous form (a super). For example, the super form of a lesser is a blue eyed leucistic, which looks dramatically different.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...s-amp-acronyms

[EMSPrincess]

RI = Respiratory Infection
BP = Ball Python
Those are the only ones I can think of right now!
The two numbers (1.1, 0.1, ect) indicates the number of males/females you have of a snake. The right number indicates the number of males, and the left number indicates the number of females. So for those two examples, it would be 1 male, 1 female, and 0 males and 1 female.

[Tigerhawk]

Welcome to the forum. You are at the right place to learn. What type of reptiles do you have?

[MalachiJ]

I have a male albino ball, born August 2014. Have had absolutely 0 problems with him yet. Ate the day after I got him home, great snake!

[Tigerhawk]

Very nice. I'm Sure he will not be your last. Ball pythons are so addictive ,you will have a hard time keeping just one or two.

[Eric Alan]

RI = Respiratory Infection
BP = Ball Python
Those are the only ones I can think of right now!
The two numbers (1.1, 0.1, ect) indicates the number of males/females you have of a snake. The right number indicates the number of males, and the left number indicates the number of females. So for those two examples, it would be 1 male, 1 female, and 0 males and 1 female.

Your lefts and rights are backwards, but you managed to get your explanation of the numbers correct.

The first number (the left one) is the number of males. The second number (the right one) is the number of females. If there is a third number (the far right one), it would be the number of unsexed/undetermined animals.

[MalachiJ]

Yeah I can already tell this is turning into a slight obsession lol. Think I'm going to be breeding in the future (not for a while). Any tips on getting started with that? (Easy genes/mutations/morphs to work with)

[snake77]

Hi guys,

I'm also new to this forum and had a question about my royal. I've had him for about a year now and he is doing really well but has since stopped eating. I know its normal for royals to go off their food sometimes but was wondering how long does this normally last?

Thanks