Last year I did a project, Normal x Dinker. The dinker is a male, my second Ball python I've ever acquired actually. He always looked a bit different to me, but I mean we all see our snakes as unique individuals. That being said I think I may have proved him out, although I am unsure. I've never really said much about this project because of my uncertainty so I've now directed myself to create this thread to hear your observations. Here are a series of photos I took tonight to explaining my reasoning.

Here are the dinker's two sons next to each other. The dinker-son is on the left and the normal on the right. Comparing these guys together in person, the dinker on the left seems to have a more golden-brown color look to him--which the dad also seems to have compared to my other normal females and normals in the clutch alike. It may be hard to see in the photo but I tried using flash to pop out the colors.


Here is dad next to both sons, then dad with dinker, and then dad with normal.




Now some individual traits to point out on the dinker son. The traits the father and son both share are these:
•Golden-brown overall coloration with back blushing areas, more so around the last 1/3 of their bodies.
•Reduced pattern and little to no double black spots within the brown blotches on the snake's side pattern.

•Golden-brown coloration fading into a thick layer of golden-yellow or yellow on the sides.
*In this photo, dinker on left and normal on right.

•Tracks down the side of the belly and/or a clean belly pattern
*In this photo, dinker on left and normal on right. (You can really see the yellow sides pop on the dinker in this photo)

Father's belly

•Grey-ish colored eyes



I am really curious to hear what some of you think. Maybe I am just getting my hopes up for producing a new morph, or maybe it could really be something. Either way I am breeding him again this year to a different normal female to see if I get the same results. If I do and happen to produce a female I'm going to breed her back to daddy. Just had him locked up with her first night paired on Wednesday. You may also be able to see a physical color difference between the two here as well.


Thanks so much for reading through this thread, I know it was lengthy but that's how Coolio rolls. Can't wait to hear what you all have to say.