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OK. Here's my stupid "what morph is this"? post. But this adult female really makes me stare. I know there's really no way to know for sure other than breeding her because I have no idea what she looked like as a baby but what are some other opinions?

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She could be. Big plus is that it's a female so you can breed her to a male, and then the next season have a "het" male ready to breed back.
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Mike.
-Baseball and Ball Pythons complete me.-

I would try to breed her with a male het. The males are really cheap now. You could possibly find out next season. I would try an SK het if she were mine.
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John Vandegrift

Not entirely true. Each of the axanthic lines are incompatible. VPI, Joliff and Snakekeeper each have their own lines which must be bred within the line to produce axanthics.

If you bought a 1.0 het axanthic it would be quite risky. If it proved great but if not then you just got a normal snake for the most part.

I think if that snake is an axanthic it would have a better shot of being compatible with the SK line than the VPI. Just my opinion. I do not know much about the Joliff line. Has the Joliff line been proven incompatible with SK?
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John Vandegrift

The problem with breeding a het male (or homo male) to her is that if she IS a different line of axanthic, you just shot yourself in the foot because how are you going to line breed now that you have just contaminated your line with another KNOWN line. How do you differentiate whether any "morphs" coming from that line are indeed your line or SK line?

Best option would probably be either a normal male or even better a pastel male.

She very well could be. If I were you, I'd put her with a Pastel male. Pray for a baby Pastel male, and breed her back to mom! If you don't get an Axanthic Pastel, you'll still be getting pastels! Give it a few seasons to prove out!

Good luck, man.
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Ryan Farris