Thanks for the responses. I understand how hard it can be to develop standards, because I had to develope them myself for the UMC. There are some mice like variegated, which can look 2 completely different ways, but one is prefered for show, though both are attractive to different people.


I think it would be interesting to have standards for ball pythons and set up shows for them.
As far as the differences (a normal reduced pattern, and a normal busy pattern for example) there can be standards for both. You could enter the snake as a Standard/wild colour with reduced, medium, or busy pattern, and the snake would be judged according to what you entered it as.