black back ball

[johnny]

can any show me a pic and give me a little info on this morph

[Linds]

Not really a "morph" so to speak, of course offspring will resemble their parents to a degree, but that's the same with any traits, generally just has a lot of black dorsally with little interruption. Personally, I think they should have black completely uninterrupted to be called a black back. They are nothing more than normals to me... but in the world of Ball Pythons everything is a morph :rolleyes:

A nice example from NERD's site...
http://www.newenglandreptile.com/gallery_pics/ball_pics/black_stripe/BlackStrOrangeBall2-L.jpg

[Invictus]

Even that one has interruptions though. :)

We have a "black back" male from Scales Zoo, here's his mug shot:

http://www.invictusart.com/images/Damian04.jpg

I call them a black back if their dorsal parrtern is mostly black. But like Linds said, EVERYTHING is a morph with BPs.

[Simon Hamelin]

this is one of my little girl
I consider her only as beautiful normal but she's black back


http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/1648teste-007-web-med.jpg

[Corey Woods]

In my collection my Black Backs and Black Stripes are both genetic. Here is how I define the 2 mutations.

Black Backs have a wide black stripe running the length of the body that is uniform thickness all the way down the back. They also have abbarent side patterns as well.

Black Stripes have a wavy black stripe running the length of the body with the thickness of the stripe varying down the length of the body. They have a clean side pattern with the ones with almost no side pattern being most desireable (IMHO).

Here are some pics of both mutations (offspring that I have produce from my genetic lines).

Black Backs (from my Red Axanthic line)

Male from 2002

<img src="http://coreywoods.com/Axanthics/HetRAMale%208975.JPG">

Het Red Axanthic male with 2 normal siblings

<img src="http://coreywoods.com/Axanthics/Het%20RA%20W%20Normals%208268.jpg">

Second Generation (F2) Black Stripe male from 2002. This guy has been breeding an F1 Black Stripe female that I produced in 2000.

<img src="http://coreywoods.com/BlackStripe/BlackStripe2326.JPG">

Second Generation (F2) Black Stripes. Male from 2002 on the left and males from 2003 on the right.

<img src="http://coreywoods.com/BlackStripe/BlackStripeF2s%208683.JPG">

Comparision picture of a Black Back (Het Red Axanthic female) on the bottom and a Black Stripe on the Top. Both from 2003.

<img src="http://coreywoods.com/Axanthics/HetRA&BS9051.JPG">

I hope this helps,
Corey Woods

[johnny]

thanks everybody i have now came to the conclusion that i do not have a black back i have a black stripe so thanks corey for the pics best part is i got it for 50 bucks