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A few morph questions please.

Turtlequest Jul 23, 2006 11:07 PM

Anyone have a list of how certain morphs are made?

How do you produce a mohave?

What is the outcome of one 100% het ghost and one normal?

How about just posting any info on how morphs are produced or a link (besides the "hunters guide".

Any help would be appreciated. I would just like a better understanding (since cruise this forum daily)

Thanks.
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1.0.0 Common Snapping Turtle (Aggro)
1.1.0 Bearded Dragons
1.1.0 Western Hognose(hets for albino)
0.1.0 Western Hognose(RED)(66% het albino)

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joshhutto Jul 23, 2006 11:56 PM

A mojave is created by either breeding a mojave x normal, a mojave x mojave, super mojave x norm or super mojave x mojave. There is no other way to produce a mojave unless one of the parents are either visable mojave's or a super mojave. The outcome of a 100% het snake x norm would be all babies appear to be norm, but each would be 50% possible het for the trait being bred. There are some traits that are recessive and some that are co-dom/dom. some of the recessive morphs are albino, piebald, hypo/ghost, lav. albino, axanthic, caramel, clark line genetic stripe and vpi and RDR lines of patternless. Some but not all co-doms/doms are spider, cinnamon/black pastel, pinstripe, pastel, vanilla, mojave, lesser platinum, butter, genetic granite, red axanthic, spot-nose, fire, yellow-belly which are het ivory, phantom, woma and sable. Granted those lists aren't all the traits that are around and there are many combinations of the morphs but that should give you a good idea of what's out there. Some of the morphs are more dramatic than others and some are used more in combos as they bring out the best in other morphs. If you are thinking about getting into the ball python biz or just want a few for a nice collection, I say go for it. There are morphs now that can be fit into most budgets. You can get a nice looking male pastel for around $400 or you can go super high end and buy some of the rarer combo morphs. The sky is the limit and the nay sayers out there are just jealous because they either can't afford the high end stuff or they just don't put in the effort to run a small/personal business. Here are a couple of my animals just to show the deversity of some of the morphs.

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Josh Hutto
J&K Reptiles

2.3 het pied (RDR, alan bosch x 2, BHB x 2)
1.0 Spider Ball python (Ballroom pythons south)
1.0 Vanilla Ball Python (Gulf Coast)
0.1 High Contrast Albino (Gulf Coast)
1.1 het albino (ben siegel, Gulf Coast)
1.2 het citrus ghost(Gulf Coast line)
1.0 citrus ghost (Gulf Coast line)
1.1 graz pastel female
Alot of normal BP females (some not so normal)
2 various corns
0.1 brazilian rainbow boa (alan bosch)
1.0 american pit bull terrier
1.1 taco dogs (ankle biters)
1.0 grey cat
0.1 columbian red-tail boa

a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrier as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!

HognoseVsPython Jul 24, 2006 10:27 AM

So a Mojave isn't made by combining two types of ball pythons with certain traits? A mojave was originally found in the wild exexactly how it looks? (Like an Albino)

toshamc Jul 24, 2006 10:52 AM

I think you are thinking about the Super Mojave (blue eyed white snake) which is a result of breeding two mojaves together. A mojave is a co-dominate snake and the super is the dominant form of that trait.
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Tosha

"Nihil facimus sed id bene facimus"

6.34.0 Ball Python (Harry and Fluffy and gang)
1.0.0 Angolan Python (Anakin Skywalker)
0.0.1 Green Tree Python (Verdi)
0.1.0 Bredls Python (Smurfette)
0.2.0 Feline (Pippen and Pandora)
0.0.1 Desert Tortoise (Pope John Paul aka JP )
2.2.1 Fish (1,2,3,4)
0.0.0 frogs rescued from pool skimmer
0.0.1 Lizards of unknown origin

willstill Jul 24, 2006 11:30 PM

...it was brought in from the wild that way. It was not created by combining other morphs.

Will

coldthumb Jul 24, 2006 01:38 PM

Is this the sort of thing your after?

http://www.ballpython.ca/genetics.html

http://joepociaskpythons.tripod.com/start/genetics.htm
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Charles Glaspie

Tanstaafl:
"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch".
An acronym created by my favorite author Robert A. Heinlein.

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