Picked up this girl a couple days ago and wanted to get your opinion. She was sold to me as a normal ‘dinker’ and is about 15 years old. Her parents were two wild caught normals that were bred and then sold off. She has been bred in the past but never to try to prove anything out with her. Her color apparently changes through the year from dark to light consistently. 1st picture is when I got her. The next two are her color changing extremes she goes through. She has zero black (like a Hypo) and zero alien heads. I was just curious what do you guys think? Just a nice normal or maybe something special or perhaps a morph that already exists.
Yeah, I saw her and had to have her. I really hope it’s genetic as well but she should hopefully lay a good clutch next season once I beef her up some more. I’m guessing she is already 2.5k grams so fingers crossed for a large clutch.
She has bred twice and produced 5-8 eggs (5 first breeding / 8 second breeding). All the babies hatched from the clutches but it was so long ago that they no longer have the pictures. They were pairing her up this year to a Pewter Scaleless Head but only a couple times because they were considering leaving ball python breeding.
Here’s an updated picture of her fresh out of shed. I’ve been looking at other morphs trying to see if she has any similarities. Do you guys think she could be a red stripe?
The laterals look like red stripe but the dorsal doesn’t. I don’t think it is a chocolate because chocolate has key holes that aren’t present in this snake. However the dorsal is similar to morphs like chocolate and mahogany.
I probably am wrong to lol. If it was me I’m pairing her to a spotnose complex male. I can’t give a honest assessment on red stripe doesn’t look like it to me but I’ve literally only seen a couple red stripes in person. Either way if I owned her I would be intrigued enough to try and prove it out.
