Black Blood Pythons

[Hapa_Haole]

I've seen so many different looking black bloods I was curious to find out what the "normal" black blood looks like. Do they go through various color changes as they mature or is there just a lot of variance in their looks by nature? To my eyes some look jet black with well defined patterns while other just look liked dulled out red bloods with an overall black tint. So what's the norm? Does it just depend on the quality of the animal (and therefore price)? Thanks.

-Dennis

[Drew87]

They are two kinds of black bloods might be more not sure, there is a dark head black blood, and then a chrome head black blood.

[Hapa_Haole]

Thanks! What you said about they're only being two types was confirmed in the other thread I started but I really hope they discover more. And it seems I was right to assume that their looks depend mostly on the quality of the animal.

[littleindiangirl]

The P. Curtus (aka black blood) has at least 3, maybe 4 distinct color phases. They go by so many nick names, and other common names...

The first that most people think of when they hear black blood is the Black Head. ( Aka, Dark Head).
The second is the Chrome heads (aka, light head).
Third is the Yellow/ Orange heads (although they may be light heads, but are so starkly different I can't see how they are one in the same)
Then the Caramel Albino morph, which has been reproduced by Tracy Barker of VPI.

Don't know if you have browsed, but we have a dark and light head p. curtus, I think it's pretty apparent that the light heads show more pattern.

[Hapa_Haole]

Thanks for the sound info once again.

I've seen many babies with very distinct patterns and white colorings but I don't think I've come across an adult with similar coloring or patterns. Do adults tend to fade out? Or have I just seen a poor representation of adult bloods? Or maybe I've mainly been viewing black heads over chrome heads? Or a little bit of everything?

Sorry for all the nooby questions!

-Dennis

[littleindiangirl]

The black heads pattern gets very dark as they age.

[Drew87]

The black heads pattern gets very dark as they age.

Every shed my little black bloods head gets darker.

[Krazy99CL]

The P. Curtus (aka black blood) has at least 3, maybe 4 distinct color phases. They go by so many nick names, and other common names...

The first that most people think of when they hear black blood is the Black Head. ( Aka, Dark Head).
The second is the Chrome heads (aka, light head).
Third is the Yellow/ Orange heads (although they may be light heads, but are so starkly different I can't see how they are one in the same)
Then the Caramel Albino morph, which has been reproduced by Tracy Barker of VPI.

Don't know if you have browsed, but we have a dark and light head p. curtus, I think it's pretty apparent that the light heads show more pattern.

My opinion is there is 3.
I havent seen anything regarding..het, morph, or percent head black bloods. So the heads are types and morphs are just morphs, if that make sence. Vpi has different morphs. Zebra, Caramel, etc...Carmel morph as been confirmed but not sure what type of gene.

The black heads are known to grow longer...
The orange/peach/yellow..(rare imo, nice clean one) smallest.
Chrome heads grow in between.

What ever your beliefs are is up to you regarding types or morphs. I tend to say 3 and morphs dont count. But thats me.
To me...Its like for the bloods for example. They have locales. Brongersmai, Bangka, and sumatra reds. Stripes, hypos, ya-di..ya da..are red morphs to me...

Just fyi. Kara can confirm the 3 types and their lengths...

[Krazy99CL]

ChrisK(on the kara's form) has one of the nicest peach heads ive seen to date.

[redpython]

i would almost bet there are more morphs out there than what you believe.