Coral Glow Babies

[MarkS]

Only one year and it's lost a lot of it's color, they tend to get lighter and lighter every year. There is a reason that NERD called their founder import male 'whitesmoke'

[CapeFearConstrictors]

Thanks for the kind words to everyone who had them!

If you're only going to keep bps that look as good or better as adults than they do babies, then your list of options is going to be pretty small. The unfortunate fact is that most of our morphs and combos don't age particularly well. Knowing I can make beautiful babies makes me want to keep pairing up my homely adults. Actually, I find that I enjoy my adults as much as the babies. They aren't nearly as colorful in most cases, but I still like them just the same.

[joebad976]

Thanks for the kind words to everyone who had them!

If you're only going to keep bps that look as good or better as adults than they do babies, then your list of options is going to be pretty small. The unfortunate fact is that most of our morphs and combos don't age particularly well. Knowing I can make beautiful babies makes me want to keep pairing up my homely adults. Actually, I find that I enjoy my adults as much as the babies. They aren't nearly as colorful in most cases, but I still like them just the same.

I agree here.....Babies are almost always brighter and more colorful than adults. I think the 1100g adult male aged well so far. And those Banana Spiders CFC posted are amazing. I agree that some banana combos look terrible but so do other combos that don't have banana.

[MarkS]

Since when is a one year old considered an adult? Maybe I should have said mature adult. These babies look wonderful and you should be very proud of them.

I agree here.....Babies are almost always brighter and more colorful than adults. I think the 1100g adult male aged well so far. And those Banana Spiders CFC posted are amazing. I agree that some banana combos look terrible but so do other combos that don't have banana.

Granted that adults of most mutations end up looking duller then the babies, however they don't usually end up looking like a completely different morph. These should lighten up more and more every year until they're nearly white with dark speckles. I'm not saying that they're bad looking as adults but they look completely different then they do as babies and I don't think most people will be expecting that much of a change.

When Kevin first posted pictures of the first coral glow hatchings, he did so without any explanation about there they came from. The speculation was rampant on how he went about producing those gems with most people suspecting that it was some kind of combo mutation. Nobody suspected that his imported white smoke male had been the father of the clutch, they just looked too different from each other.

[Mikethornton]

Beautiful hatchlings! I love coral glows! I just picked up a coral glow het ghost male and I'm very excited to get into this project. Coral glows/bananas are definitely one of the most unique and eye catching morphs that's ever came along in the ball python world. (Ive enjoyed bps for over 13 years)Theres many 4 and 5 gene animals that don't look half as cool as a coral glow. Now that the prices are down people can have fun with this awesome genetic mutation. I remember when piebalds were 15k a piece and even pinstripes and spiders going for 3k. People need to get over it. Prices drop, you can still work w what you think is beautiful. I also love the adults! Some look better than others but I hope mine has tons of speckles cause its really weird looking! No one can say that a coral glow enchi isn't awesome or a coral glow leopard. There's too much hatred and bitterness in the bp community. Mostly from desperate people that i believe have foolishly overinvestd and are only in it for the money.I've worked hard to become financially free and now I can do whatever hobby I want.

I bought my champagne for $850 a year ago and now they are going for $250 a pop and you cant give them away....