This story begins 2 years ago. A friend of mine was getting out of the ball python business and she was selling everything she had for very cheap. Unfortunately by the time I got some money saved up and was ready to buy a lot of what she had she was almost completely out of ball pythons. Well the only thing she had left was a captive hatched dinker female and an albino female. I ended up buying both snakes and only keeping the dinker female. This year I bred this female to my spider male. She laid 7 good eggs for me and 0 slugs. All eggs went full term and are now out of the eggs and waiting to shed. It looks like I may have something going on here. There were 2 'normals' 2 that have bellies like mom and 1 'normal spider' and 2 spiders that had bellies like mom. Its a very subtle gene whatever it is, because the first day out of the egg I didn't notice it, but after 3 days it's becoming more and more apparent that some aren't like others.
I've attached a few photos so you can let me know what you think.
Starting with Spiders:
All of them together - Notice one is much darker and different than the other two. The darker one of the three has the dirty 'normal' spider belly.
'Normal' Spider - At least this is what my opinion is as of right now. This spider is much darker than the other two, and it has the typical dirty spider belly.
'Dinker' Spider #1 - This belly is different than the first as well as the overall color of the animal. It head is much lighter also.
Dinker Spider #2 - This belly pops even more to me. The colors again are very much lighter than the 'normal' spider.
And now for the normals:
As a group, and individual belly shots:
'dinker' #1 - not as clean a belly as I would have liked, but its not quite as normal.
'dinker' #2 - Clean belly, almost just like mom.
'normal' #1 - Just that... a nice normal.
'normal' #2 - Again, nice normal.
And here is a picture of mom so you can compair:
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