Orange or Normal Ghost?????

[Doby71]

Just wanted to get some opinions... I am getting ready to pair my 100% Het Ghost female to either my Normal Ghost or the Orange Ghost male. What do you guys think?

[snakesRkewl]

Normal ghost?

Orange ghost is the most prevalent type but there are others, none called "normal"

[Doby71]

Right, by normal I meant just the normal grey ghost.

[snakesRkewl]

There is no such thing as a grey ghost?

There is butterscotch, orange, and other lines of ghost, most being compatible with orange ghost but a grey ghost is something I've never heard of.

[Doby71]

Sorry, not sure what you want... The snake is grey. This is a few words from Ralph Davis Reptiles, ---------- MORE BALL PYTHONS ---------- Albino Anerythristic Arctic Axanthic Banded Black Backed Black Head Burgundy Cinnamon Pastel Caramel Albino Clown Genetic Gold Striped Ghost/Hypo Goblin Granite High Gold Hyper Melanistic IMG Jaguar Jolliff Snow Labyrinth Jungle Lavender Albino Lemon/Lime Hypo Paradox Albino Pastel Jungle Patternless Piebald Pinstripe Platinum Red Axanthic Reduced Pattern Ringer Spider Tiger VPI Snow GHOST/HYPO_BALL_PYTHON Scientific Name: Python regius Common Name: Ball Python Morph: Ghost or Hypomelanistic Genetics: Color Mutation - Simple Recessive ( NERD ) Ghost ball pythons are hypomelanistic........meaning lacking/reduced black and dark pigments ( browns and blacks ). They seem to come in may different flavors too? Through the years there have been green, yellow, orange, butterscotch and gray "GHOSTS".......they all are beautiful to see in person..........the reduction of dark pigment makes them appear "soft".............sometimes even blurry/hazzy to look at............thus calling them "GHOSTS"..........for their ghostly appearance...........oooooooooowwwwwwwhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! Breeding the ghost as we call it......which is really a hypo, to an axanthic or anerythristic will produce the "TRUE GHOST"...........this is a project I hope to get double hets from in 2002..........axanthic x yellow ghost = double het for "True Ghost"........a True Ghost should look like a super ghostly axanthic.............once the "True Ghost" is produced.........it can be bred to an albino to produce double hets for BLIZZARD!!!!!!!!! There is nothing normal looking about a "Ghost" ball python..........thats for sure.............A Ghost / Hypo will shed clear like an albino ball python.............A very "Ghostly" looking head..........and over-all appearance makes this mutation very desirable in collections today.............Notice how the dark areas have light color "blushing" through?

[satomi325]

There are many lines of Hypo like Jerry said. Most are OG though.

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[Daybreaker]

Maybe pics of the snake would help, I'd really like to see him as I've never heard of a grey ghost before either.

[Doby71]

Let me see if I can get one posted. I have never called it anything but gray. Maybe it's known by another name...

[eatgoodfood]

I think the OP is referring to just a ghost, or a hypo, the normal plain old nothing special type. Thats most of what we have here in Germany, their just called ghost. Orange Ghost is a different line, looks different, have those here too, but their more money.

[Doby71]

I think by the way this thread is going, I will be breeding the orange ghost to the Het.