When you are associated with ball pythons for as long as most of us, you see a LOT of normals. Looking for "the next new morph" comes from scrutinizing MANY normals. When one becomes obsessed (lets call it what it really is here..lol) with looking for ANY "uncommon" markings in normals, you really need to know what they already are or aren't. That is why we make it our business to know what a yellowbelly looks like. I have even been able to pick out possible het ghosts because of a slight "glow" that normals do not typically have. The ones that "look" normal to ME are Specials, Specters, Thunders, Lightnings, Vanillas...because I don't look at them every day. If I was able to afford one, I would be studying the "look" of them and determining what traits make them look just a wee bit different from a "typical" normal.

Yellowbellys have slight yellowish, orangish blushing coming up from the belly in between the saddles (the tannish, brownish part of the pattern on the ball). The underneath where the sides of the snake meet the belly has an indian corn look to it, almost like a digital picture enhanced a thousand times to make it look pixelated. There is also an over all darker "look" to Yellowbellies you would noticed if placed nest to a normal. Now there are a LOT of dark normals too, but yellowbellies have a VERY slight "different" darker look than a regular darker looking normal. (if that makes any sense..lol) Basically, if someone put a Yellowbelly next to a dark, or darker than usual normal, I would still be able to tell which was the yellowbelly without even looking at the belly or sides.
I hope this helped a little.

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