Harlequin Wide-Stripe

[meeistom]

Never seen a super form or bred a stripe x stripe. My buddy hasn't either. Next year the females will be big enough to bred so we will find out next year.

I know more because I bought some from VMS and bred the males last year to a lot of females. I tried to sell the offspring and no one was interested at all. After bringing them to several shows and getting no where with them I sold the remaining snakes to a friend as he wanted a cheap project to work on. He did some more work and now I have more information. Honestly I had no idea anyone even cared about the wides at all.

I know about the different lines from talking to folks at shows and talking to guys from Canada and Italy. I have family in both areas and they know i'm into reptiles and with the internet we got to emailing and exchanging info.

No idea on trying to bred the different lines I haven't heard of this happening. Doesn't mean it hasn't happened.


I think the reason it's no more "known" is very simply put they aren't too special. There are lots of normals out there that have a very similar appearance. In the grand scheme of morphs out there they aren't that different from a normal. Some of the combos are nice but again if you can't sell them at a decent price you end up with lots of pretty pets. Lets say you bred a wide to a mojave you get 5 eggs and 1 is a normal wide and 1 is a stripe mojave. You now have to market the stripe mojave and show it's genetic. Easier said then done. It just may not be worth the time and effort. Remember not everyone thinks they are all that special.

Thats cool... thanks so much for posting that... any additional info you could provide would be amazing. If its a proven morph, shouldn't it be more "known of" among ball python breeders? You seem to know more about them than I've been able to figure out through countless hours of searching the internet. Do you know if there is a super form? VMS' website claims that there is a Harlequin Side-Stripe, which is the super form... but other than that I can't find any info on Harlequin x Harlequin breeding. I assume since you said incomplete Dominant (and not co-dominant) that there is no known super form?

Has anyone tried breeding different lines together? My friend has a VMS line male and my female I believe to be a different line (probably the Canadian line you're referring to). This is solely based on the colours, the VMS line look a lot darker and are more obvious looking that its probably a morph. Where as my girl looks a lot more like a normal colour-wise, but displays the big bold wide stripe... and the saddles are pretty funky looking, too.

Very interested in any more info at all that you could share.

Cheers