What Morphs am I dealing with?

[cinderbird]

Cliche maybe but I am new to the world of ball pythons. An I have seen the crazy plethora of colors and variations that they come in. Or more accurately what came about from selective breeding. Its not unlike pitbulls. I have a papered blue fawn blue nose pitbull who is gorgeous. Blue nose pits are like different ball python morphs they were selectively bred for aesthetic purposes.

How do they come out with all these Morphs? I mean people would have had to breed them for a long time selecting desirable traits to get ones of so many different colors and patterns.

Almost all base morphs (original single gene morphs) came from one or more wild caught animals that were put into captivity. Those morphs can then be selectively bred.

ya just to prevent cage aggression. dont worry people just get semi irratated answering the same questions no worries though. that baby normal is beauty though congrats.

I think that cage aggression (with ball pythons at least) is a complete myth. The number one reason NOT to move a ball python to another enclosure for feeding is stress. BPs can be very finky eaters and moving them around near feeding time can exacerbate that.

Ok what is exactly a het?

Het refers to heterozygous, or only carrying one copy of a recessive gene. Het animals LOOK normal, but have the genetic potential to create interesting morphs.