Dinkers, Odd Patterns, Ringers and Other Funky Stuff

[mues155]

Heck yeah you guys need to hook those Dinkers up!
Those patterns on those snakes of yours are SO cool. Im truly envious of both of you.

[Rat160]

Yeah I offered to buy her and even to do a breeding loan just because they were so similar and he lives pretty close to me but we lost contact and looks like he has other plans for her. Still hope in a future season we can work something out.

[saber2th]

Here is a nice little female! Has some granite going on.





thanks,

Dave

[Crawly's Mom]

This is my Bonnie. I just got her not too long ago, but if she eats for me, I intend to let her lock with Clyde again. I think she's a beautiful dinker, almost all bands and so reduced. Even some amazing flames and fading.









Wish the pics were better, but all I had was my phone.

[twistedtails]

I was just looking at that and thinking the same thing .

Anyone else notice how more people are calling snakes Dinkers and charging more money for them? Instead of a 30-50 dollar snake their asking for 100+ not including shipping depending on where you're located. With the prices some of them carry it's no longer a Dinker that's Morph status. High blushing, reduced alien heads, flames, light color or anything and it's like they're adding on an extra 50 bucks for each characteristic.

Yeah, its kinda funny actually. A lot more is proving genetic than people thought. I think that has a lot to do with it. Justified? NO! I saw somebody listing a dinker male for $250 dollars on fauna the other day. If he doesnt prove out....You would have paid $250 to hatch a bunch of normals. WTF?

[DemmBalls]

Yeah, its kinda funny actually. A lot more is proving genetic than people thought. I think that has a lot to do with it. Justified? NO! I saw somebody listing a dinker male for $250 dollars on fauna the other day. If he doesnt prove out....You would have paid $250 to hatch a bunch of normals. WTF?

If the seller is up front in calling it a Dinker...I don't care what they charge. It's no different than buying a poss het for several hundred/thousand dollars depending on what morph it is PH for. It's all a matter of perspective.

[twistedtails]

If the seller is up front in calling it a Dinker...I don't care what they charge. It's no different than buying a poss het for several hundred/thousand dollars depending on what morph it is PH for. It's all a matter of perspective.

Poss het is different in my eyes. At least you are buying something that was produced by breeding to a know gene.

[LotsaBalls]

If the seller is up front in calling it a Dinker...I don't care what they charge. It's no different than buying a poss het for several hundred/thousand dollars depending on what morph it is PH for. It's all a matter of perspective.

I agree with this. If something does prove out, just think what it could be worth! If you don't see the possibilities then don't buy it.

[twistedtails]

I agree with this. If something does prove out, just think what it could be worth! If you don't see the possibilities then don't buy it.

Fair enough. You guys buy all of the wild type MALES you want and let me know when something proves out...Maybe I'll buy in at that point.

[purplemuffin]

Of course, some of the dinkers I see for sale barely are any different than a regular normal. The trait for sure might be genetic, but there are a lot of things that are genetic that aren't necessarily morphs, or if they are they are so subtle we tend to not really play with them. Now it seems anything genetic gets a name and a spot on world of ball pythons!

Don't get me wrong, I love dinkers and a lot of the subtle morphs do weird things to other morphs which is cool. But some of them..I dunno. I haven't seen the pairing that really makes me go "wow!" They just look like normals. Really good looking normals! And when bred to a morph they look like they had parents with good genetics, but not necessarily a combo gene. But maybe they haven't found that one gene that freaks out when mixed with them..