Axanthic Fire

[prettyballsy]

Everyone says if you're going to breed you should breed what excites you and what you'd like to have in your collection. That seems to make a lot of sense until you see what some of the morphs that excite you cost lol. Then you find yourself looking at other more affordable morphs and telling yourself "maybe I'll just start with these". I think maybe this is how people begin wrong from the start. So I'm done looking at all the cool yet more affordable morphs that aren't quite what I want and back to saving for the pair I really want. An axanthic pastel and a fire spider, breed some of the amazing hets back to the axanthic and see what happens lol. I love axanthics and I love fire with anything. The fire gene seems to really mitigate browning out with bees and spiders so I'm hoping it will do the same for axanthics. Anyway, thats the plan. What do you think?

[RoseyReps]

I think that would be a great 4 banger to work towards a Fire Zebra Bee...Would love to see that! The axanthic firefly's are AMAZING too! I would love to see some adult pics of the axanthic fire morphs, to see how much it helps the possible "brown-out". I have a similar dream project going on in my head that will probably take 20 years to accomplish, but it will be so worth it if it works out! Axanthic is one of my favorite recessives too, there's something about a clean black and white BP that just makes me drool

[gsarchie]

Yup about loving a black and white snake! So an Axanthic bumble bee is known as a zebra bee?

[prettyballsy]

I totally agree. And here's a crazy idea...breed a couple generations until I have visual morphs of everything I want and then add pied to the mix! Ooooh, FUN!

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Here you go. It says zebra bee on the top as the name of the morph but when you go to the SK axanthic bumblebee it just says axanthic bumblebee. Go figure. I just know I want to make one!

http://www.worldofballpythons.com/mo...ic-bumble-bee/

[gsarchie]

It's on my list as well. I have a male pastel, a female spider 50% het VPI Axanthic, and I just bought a male VPI Axanthic and a female that is 100% het VPI. Would LOVE a zebra bee / lightening pied, too!

[youbeyouibei]

ABSOLUTELY on the axanthic anything, lol! I have 1.1 pair of black pastels 100% het VPI axanthic...and a female firefly. I'd love to produce an axanthic fire; the black and white of the axanthic and hopefully the fire to "clean" the morph up some and help the colors to hold into adulthood. The lightning pieds (and the dreamsicles) are what sold me on pieds; I wasn't much a fan of them prior to seeing those two morphs but after I did, well...here I am at 14 snakes and counting, lol!

[PsychD_Student]

For you all who love axanthics, what do you think of the new Black Axanthic trait that VPI is producing? I think a black axanthic zebra bee would be off the chain!

[prettyballsy]

For you all who love axanthics, what do you think of the new Black Axanthic trait that VPI is producing? I think a black axanthic zebra bee would be off the chain!

I looked at as many pics of the black axanthic as I could find. Pretty snake but too dark for me I think. I have heard it doesn't have the brown out issues of the other lines though. Combined with Fire would be awesome!

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Any suggestions on other morphs that might clean up or preserve axanthic coloring as the snake ages? Fire seemed the obvious choice to me but I'm sure they're others. Or any other axanthic combos on your wish lists if axanthic is your thing?