In today's hobby, we see many new and wonderful morphs including what is now considered designer morphs, those combinations of two or more wild appearing morphs. More frequently in short-tailed/blood pythons we hear about "lines" of animals resulting from selective breeding, isolating certain appealing characteristics. I can provide an example of this from my own efforts more for fun than anything else. For the last ten years I have been working with a line of borneo pythons that seemed to offer up potential.

Now more like 11years later, I prodcued a variable clutch with even more potential than what I started with in the beginning. See here we start with a female VPI female borneo and a male borneo rescued through Discover Center in Lake Forest.

1st Generation: Meet "Patience" or Grandma...who shares appearances with the "Rock" or Grandpa


2nd Generation: Meet Dirty Joe and Checkers...who start showing the more obvious traits from Patience and Rock, what is characterized as granite or speckled-sided and light blond heads...
Dirty Joe (sire)


Checkers (dame)


3rd Generation: Meet the crew from this year ranging from the traditional granite/speckled-sided, striped, light blond head traits sought out to the 2nd generation granite appearance to the first appearance of "super" granite/speckled sided appearance and ultra-breit. Four appearances in total out of a clutch of 24 eggs.

Normal, speckled sided appearance:


Granite, speckled sided appearance:


"Super duper" granite appearance:


Ultra breit appearance (first time appearing):


This is why I love these guys.

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