Mystic or mojave

[qwe587578]

How to identify this ball python is mystic or mojave?

[qwe587578]

[qwe587578]

[t_h_wyman]

Based on that belly, I am inclined to say Mystic

[armiyana]

If you really want to know without breeding to another BEL morph I’d get a shed test done.

The belly comparison Travis posted holds true for the mojaves in my collection.
But the two morphs have been notoriously difficult to tell apart accurately.

[qwe587578]

This is with GHI MOJAVE one of the children.

[qwe587578]

But this doesn't look like MYSTIC POTION

[armiyana]

Are these offspring from this snake? What was the pairing to produce them? Also wait until the baby has shed to ID them. I have 2 crystals (Mojave special) that hatched out with almost no markings. They gained all the color after shedding. The skin isn’t quite done getting all that in before hatching.

[qwe587578]

YES

with GHI MOJAVE

[t_h_wyman]

@armiyana

I have 2 crystals (Mojave special) that hatched out with almost no markings. They gained all the color after shedding

This is a VERY important note. There is a significant amount of pigment development/oxidation that happens after hatching and the first couple sheds/feeds. Add in that the Crystal GHI combo is a very very pale snake to begin with and it makes it all the more important to wait a while before trying to ID

Also, I can make out faint patterning on that white baby

[qwe587578]

Thank you. I'll wait a few more days.

[qwe587578]

It shed its skin for the first time.

[t_h_wyman]

I can definitely see lateral pattern on there. And it looks to have a bit more of a yellow hue to it than I would expect if it were a SuperMojo