Nuances (dialup WARNING!)

[Kara]

Main Entry: nu·ance
Pronunciation: 'nü-"än(t)s, 'nyü-, -"äns; nü-', nyü-'
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from Middle French, shade of color, from nuer to make shades of color, from nue cloud, from Latin nubes; perhaps akin to Welsh nudd mist
1 : a subtle distinction or variation

Ivory ball pythons aren't white their entire lives. They actually color up after a couple of months, and some have awesome lavender, gray & bluish pigmentation in addition to the yellow dorsal stripe, although these colors do fade over time. They maintain their midnight-blue eyes w/red pupils into adulthood. Personally I wish they'd retain their juvenile coloration...but it's hard to knock this morph regardless of subtle pigmentation!













Enjoy!

K~

[jknudson]

Are you sure you didn't just run a highlighter down that little ones back? Stunning! I need to see Ivories in person...

Thanks Kara!

-Jason

[Shelby]

Beautiful! I'd never seen a larger ivory before.. looks like a black eyed leucy to me.. just a little gray and yellow here and there.

[JLC]

Beautiful!! LOVE the contrast between baby and adult!!

[Laooda]

Love that 3rd pic. ! Looks like the lil one is thinking, ***Soooo, THATS what I'm gonna look like one day****

GREAT pix as always!!!!

[Freakie_frog]

question how are they produced

[Kara]

question how are they produced

The Ivory is the homozygous ("super") form of the Yellowbelly ball python. They can be produced by breeding Yellowbelly x Yellowbelly, Yellowbelly x Ivory, or Ivory x Ivory.

[cueball]

Those are some really amazing pics :eek:


That really shows the awesome colors the Ivory has..wow!!

[cueball]

K...do you see much difference in the babies or do they usually look the same??

[Freakie_frog]

Ok so I now need two yellow bellies >