identifying fires

[Moofins07]

Wow. I've actually NEVER been fond of Fires (not that I HATED them, just never found anything great about the morph) but after looking at those photos that Superballs put in... *Whistles*

Mind you, those are some of the best examples. Might be a little hard to find something to top those.

[Allysen]

I've never heard the thing about pied markers down part of their belly, that's really interesting! Superballs, those pictures are absolutely stunning!

I have two "possible" fires that I purchased as such. I would've bought them anyway, they're both so gorgeous, but I'll throw up some pics for fun.

The first is Gideon, who we purchased as a baby. He's a yellowbelly, but had been resold a couple of times, and the breeder's records had been misplaced, and there had been two clutches of yellowbellies produced that year, one just yb and one ybXfire. I don't know if he'll prove out or not, but either way he's a looker:






And then we have Wadjet, a little female from Casey Lazik. She came from a fireXfire clutch but didn't look like a fire or a normal, so we paid slightly more than we would've for a normal, but nowhere near the price of a fire. She totally screams yellow in person, she's gorgeous:

[SUPERBALLS]

the first one looks like a yellow belly, but the second could possible be a fire or just the best looking normal i have seen, what does the belly look like on the second one?

and thanks for the comments!!!

heres another cool pic of the adult male!!!

[Sloanreptiles]

Heres a picture of a Belly of a Fire.

And a Fire with a Normal

Hope this helps.

[irishanaconda]

yea i have a mystery ball python male too. someone came in to my work and said his friend didnt want him, so i bought him for 15$ lol. hes really light almost axanthic looking and has markers as well. still prob a nice normal thou.


hes on the left in this bad pic next to one of my poss double het caramel pieds i hatched earlier this year, she is about 300g and hes about 400g.

[Caz]

Few pics for you. May help identify the dinkers.

Fire belly - kind of grey/faded looking 'pied markers.' You can see the head marker on these pics.



Eye shot:

[Kristian]

Here's some pics of my fire. He came from a reliable source. He is for sure a fire.

This first pic is from a few months ago. It shows the head marker pretty well.


This one I just went and took with my cell phone camera to try and show the belly markings. Same snake as above.

[Danounet]

Thanks for this thread!

So do all fires have that little head mark?

[Caz]

Thanks for this thread!

So do all fires have that little head mark?

All the ones i've even seen have it to a greater or lesser extent - but it's there.

[Oxylepy]

All the ones I've seen definitely do too.