I was just wondering how to improve a line of ball python. We all have that one person to go to for certain morph lines. It could be black pastels, pastels, there's always 1 line you like the most when it comes to different morphs. I personally like citrus pastels or lemon, blonde, or any other pastels. I have been going by the statement that goes something like "look for what you want in a morph and choose the best looking one to your eye" and the support for that was, the offspring will take after the parent. Therefore, boom, you like yellowbellies in which there is yellow that bleeds to the checkering and even the belly? Get it, breed it, and the offspring will take after it. So in that case, you don't need a specific line when thinking like that, because all you have to do is get exactly what it is you want and of course the offspring will inherit the traits. I've heard Brian's gold blush was just a really yellow normal and he breed it to a mojave and he got really yellow mojaves. So my question is, how to I take a normal and influence a morph? Is it really that simple? I have a reduced dinker, it is so reduced that I refuse to think of it as a normal, even its dorsal is suspect. But let's say it proved to be a normal. Say I want to make a line of reduced pinstripes? I take the best looking pinstripe I have and breed it to this normal reduced ball. Will it, in fact, make reduced pinstripes? I've watch clutch cutting where guys had reduced normals (they were not as reduced as mine, mine has at most 4 breaks on either side) but yeah they bred the reduced normals to things like spinner blasts and enchis and I couldn't believe it looked like only 1 snake if that looked somewhat reduced? I looked at other clutch videos where they breed reduced normals or reduced dinkers and the offspring doesn't take the reduced look. That was just an example scenario. Here's my question again, how can I influence a line of morph? With or without a normal.