New Strange Ball Python

[SGExotics]

Zach,

As i told you from the video when you first got him, he is a Normal Ball Python. He's not a morph, he doesn't look like a black nor a granite ball python. He is barely an odd ball. He looks like every other normal ball python i've seen. Now im not trying to be mean, so dont think im not your friend anymore or something, but you shouldn't keep repeating you payed $145 for him so he's not a normal. The price of an animal doesnt make it special. If i payed $20 for a high white pied, does that mean its not really a high white pied? And if i payed $1000 for a normal ball python, does that make it a morph?

Also, you are making the same mistake i made when i first came to Ball-pythons(dot)net.. And that mistake was not taking people here's word about things. Most of the people here on this forum have been keeping reptiles a LONGGGGG time, and they know what they are talking about.


And again, im not being mean, im just straight up telling you the facts...
~Brandon

[amaurer2]

Looks like a normal to me, but what do I know?

[Anarchy]

Looks like a normal to me, but what do I know?

LOL

[littleindiangirl]

Yes there are genetic lines of each. However, most pythons that may exhibit black-backed/reduced are just normals that have different style markings etc. The proven lines are particularly hard to come by genetically.

My little boy is "reduced pattern", but he is CH and it is very likely to not be genetic; who knows maybe it will prove out, but most black-backs and reduced are not genetic.

Still, its a very pretty normal.

Really, how many black backs and reduced animals have you bred, to get an animal that looks nothing like either of the parents?

If black backs and reduced patterns are rare, then Robin (Rabernet) must have a divining fork to find them!!!

Come on, small variances are genetic. I bred a busy bp, got busy offspring. I breed a reduced, I'll get reduced offspring.

Even better if I cross two parents that look alike.

To sit there and blatently say that these normals traits are not genetic is literally talking out the rear. These animals will pass on their genes, do you know what normal traits (reduced, busy, smushed alien heads etc) might be dominant, recessive, or co-dom?

Very little weight is given to the small pattern variances, so don't count them out just because you've "heard" they aren't genetic. I promise ya, they are to a degree, how they produce phenotypically in the offspring from one cross is just the start to figuring that out.