Sweet looking BP

[Kathy]

A friend of mine just got a really nice BP. She doesn't look like a normal to me, she doesn't have any black where BPs usually have black. There are a lot of pics of her at http://reptiles.majicksprings.com/hannah.html if all you who are experienced with identifying morphs would take a look I would really appreciate it. Also, my friend is not 100% sure her BP is a female, there are pics of her tail area on the site as well, if you can tell gender from the pics that would be good too. Thanks!

[MajickSprings]

Thanks Kathy for posting that for me. I couldn't find my info from when I joined before and I don't have the email addresses I used when I first signed up so I had to reregister.

[honduranfreekk]

Do the shed,s have pattern???? Look,s like a burgandy or chocolate hypo I could be wrong tho ;)

[MajickSprings]

I haven't had her for but 2 weeks so I havne't seen a shed from her yet.

[snakehunter]

niiiiiiice wanna sell it j/k good pattern is it genetic

[Invictus]

Wow, that definitely has a lighter pattern than most I've seen. I don't know if there is a fancy name for it... could be hypomelanistic. I'll let those more experienced with morphs comment though, but I think you may have a pretty valuable snake here.

[MajickSprings]

That's soo cool! I want to breed her but have no clue where to find a male to breed her to. I don't think I could afford to buy a male to breed her to at the moment either :(

[maiden_canada]

sweet ball, some of the pictures show off it's color alot more then others.

[Jeff_Favelle]

Sorry, its just a normal. I have 19 that look exactly like that. All normals. Some normals are lighter, some are darker.

[Syco]

She may be "just a normal" but she is a sweeeeet looking normal!

[MajickSprings]

I emailed Vin Russo and here was his reply:

Its hard to tell from those pictures but it may be a Burgandy.
Vin Russo

Then I emailed Vin back with the following:

Thank you Vin for taking the time to email me back. How can I prove for sure if she is burgundy or not? I would really like to know. She is 3 or 4 years old and I would like to breed her to a suitable male. Thank you again for your time!

And the reply I got was:

The only way to prove any Ball Python trait is by breeding it and then breeding it back to its offspring and producing that trait.
So you have a few ( about 3-4 ) years before you will know.
Good luck,
Vin Russo

So what I want to do now is find an old enough male to breed her to this spring and go from there.

[CDN-Cresties]

Very nice normal BP

-Steve-

[Jeff_Favelle]

So what I want to do now is find an old enough male to breed her to this spring and go from there.


Males breed at like 6-8 months and 800g, so I don't think that it will be too difficult a task. At least, it shouldn't be.

[MajickSprings]

I live in Scottsbluff, Nebraska so everything is a difficult task out here LOL

[Katt]

I'm with Jeff. We have a male with the same colouration.