You brought a thought into my head. I guess the best place to start might be to ID what a normal ball python looks like. While there are variations in normals and exceptions to what I am about to list, this is pretty typical of a normal: The head has a brown "helmet" on top, broken up by a lighter stripe that goes through the eye. The pattern after tends to vary between thick spider web looking to circles and dorsal striping and anything inbetween. Side pattern have typical shapes, most famous being alien heads, which are the lighter areas with two dots, but sometimes they have 1 dot or no dots.Originally Posted by Karokash
I appreciate the link. In your examples, my original question came from facts like I do not know what you mean by "head stamp." What is it supposed to look like vs what normals heads look like. And the color they grow into, what color is that exactly? And the fact that you said fires normally have a head stamp is exactly what I'm looking for. How do you know to look for a head stamp vs "blushing" or "banding" or other things that other morphs have. And what morphs do incorporate those terms? Those are the questions I have. Maybe a quick glossary of terms in visual markers would be another thing i'm looking for.
Anyway I'm about to open the link you sent. I appreciate it.
Fires head stamp looks like someone stamped the helmet on top of their head with a lighter shade. Fire color is tan when adults most of the time. Blushing is a lighter color coming out of the black areas of the pattern. Many pastel will have it, super pastels tend to have more. Banding is a pattern type that looks like it has multiple bands trying to wrap around the diameter of the snake. http://www.captivebredreptileforums....python_001.jpg Kinda like the opposite of a dorsal stripe.
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