Is this a regular BP???????

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Normal is a little different than that.. Morphs are more like mutations than race.

All morphs are specific bred genes that come from normal ball python mutations in the wild. A single gene 'glitch' causes Fire ball pythons, that gene happens to be possible to breed for and it passes it down to it's children. It can be bred for easily because it is just this one gene that causes the visual difference. You could also line breed light ball pythons for generations to create constant bright light balls, but it would be different than a fire. If a normal light ball python breeds to a normal dark ball python, you'll get a mixture of different shaded normals, usually a middle color. If a fire ball python(with a specific mutation for fire) breeds to a dark normal, you will get more fires as well as some normals.

Your example is more like breeding a light bp to a dark bp.. Neither is a morph and neither makes a morph, but they have a child that is a mixture of their genes.. There is no mutation involved, it is just thousands of different parts of DNA working together. If one of you was albino and you had albino children, that would be more comparable to bp morph making!

It's sort of late so I hope my explanation makes sense. Basically those comparisons don't work that well together?

Agreed. Either the ball has the gene or it doesn't. You can't have a normal bp that is half lesser without showing the full trait. You can get some pretty normals from different combos, but they will still be normals. Even if you get a really light normal from a pastel, no matter how much you breed it, you will not get a pastel.