What morph is this?

[angllady2]

No fire there. No vanilla either. If you bought it is a "morph" but the person selling it couldn't even tell you what "morph" it was, then it's a normal.

Geeze! I hate people sometimes. One, who in the world buys a snake that is a "morph" without knowing what "morph" it's supposed to be. Second, what kind of unscrupulous jerk sells a normal to some dumb sap by claiming it's a "morph".

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If I had a dime for every time someone posted a picture of their normal saying, "It doesn't look like a normal so it has to be a morph" I'd be as rich as Donald Trump! Why is it so hard for people to comprehend if you had a group of 10,000 normals at least 9,500 of them "wouldn't look like a normal" That STILL does not make them anything but a normal. Just like if you had 5,000 mojaves. No two would look exactly alike but NONE would look like a normal. Or if you had a group of 5,000 spiders. No two would be exactly the same but NOT ONE would look like a normal. Normal ball pythons, just like at least half of the morphs out there come in a wide range of color variation and pattern variation, but they are STILL normals.

Only a fool goes out and spend money on a snake that is labeled a "morph". How may snakes do you think NERD or Ralph Davis sells that they call a "morph" ?? Ben Rennick can tell you all 8 genes in one of his ball pytohns, but he still doesn't call it a "morph". He can tell you what it's parents were, what it's grandparents were and possibly even it's great grandparents. But not one of his snakes is labeled a "morph". If you want a Fire, you don't go buying a random snake someone says they think is a morph. You go to a breeder who says, "This baby is a fire. It's mom is a fire and it's dad is a pastel. It's grandmother is a yellowbelly and it's gradfather is a super fire. It has a firefly sibling, a firebelly sibling, 2 fire siblings and a firefly yellowbelly sibling."

That snake is a normal. Period. No fire, no vanilla, no yellowbelly, sure as heck no firebelly or any other true morph. And if you had a lick of sense you'd know that. Anyone with any sense at all who wants to buy a morph ball python first learns what morph they like, be it fire, pastel, spider, lesser, mojave, cinnamon or whatever. Then they talk to reputable breeders and study their photographs, they go to World of Ball Pytohns and study their photographs, they go to a few shows and talk to even more breeders and look at live examples of their chosen snake, and then, when they know exactly what it is they are looking for, they start shopping for it. They say, "this fire has a lot of blushing, but isn't very high yellow, while that one over there is super high yellow and has great flames, even if it doesn't have a lot of blushing. Now wait just a minute! This fire is insane! Look at that ridiculous yellow coloring! Have you ever seen so much blushing before?! Holy cow the belly flames on that thing!! Sure it's $100 more than the other two, but DANG you'll never see another like it in a million years!! I'm going to contact the breeder and buy her!"

They do not say," Check this out! I got this snake for next to nothing but the dude says it's a morph! No, no, he said it's a morph! I don't know. But it might be a fire, or a pastel, or a yellowbelly, or a purple polka dotted champagne. But it is a morph. The dude said so."

I wish you and your normal all the best, I really do. But calling that snake a morph, no matter how many times you do it, doesn't make it a morph.

Gale