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    Fire, Ghost, or bleached looking normal?

    So I picked up what's supposed to be a normal breeder female for dirt cheap on craigslist (the guy was also offering me it for free if I got a larger snake) but she is quite lightly pigmented compared to my male normal:


    Faded black parts which my male doesn't have at all:
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    http://i.imgur.com/89BVoxq.jpg

    So is it just my imagination, or is this not a normal normal? (total noob to morphs, sorry)

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    Yup. A normal. There is a lot of variation in normals.

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    Re: Fire, Ghost, or bleached looking normal?

    Seeing standard normal, as pied said there's a lot of variation in normals and blushing/patterning on normals.


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    Normal and hopefully not carrying mites or disease. In the future it's highly recommended to quarantine new animals for several months away from your collection, especially from a questionable source.
    Last edited by GoingPostal; 09-08-2016 at 09:30 AM.

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    This snake is actually in a separate room because of storage issues, but thanks. I had a lapse of judgement I guess and forgot about the quarantine thing.

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    This snake is actually in a separate room because of storage issues, but thanks. I had a lapse of judgement I guess and forgot about the quarantine thing.

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    Re: Fire, Ghost, or bleached looking normal?

    Normal, normal vary greatly, from light to dark, busy pattern to reduced, busy belly to clean, blush etc

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    Re: Fire, Ghost, or bleached looking normal?

    So , just wondering.... Ive always heard , there is a HUGE variation of colors/patterns on a normal, so I was wondering , how do breeders&buyers differentiate between a normal & a fire , ( since imo a fire looks like a light normal ) or any other morph out there that is similar to the wild type ?
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    Fire have a fairly distinct look to them, but the true test of a fire is how it changes other genes.

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    My fire het pied. I sadly no longer have this animal, I sold him when I moved across country...I regret selling him.

    But when it comes to genes that look close to normals sometimes it comes down to trusting the breeder.

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