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can someone post a pic of what a platinum/fire cross loooks like. thanks

A Platinum and a Fire are the same thing. So just to clarify the question, are you looking for something that has been bred to a Platinum or a Fire, or are you looking for what you would get if Platinum (or Fire) was bred to itself?

Patrick Powers
Manager of Prehistoric Pets

Thanks for your reply. I have looked through the classifieds over the past week and saw a pic of a platinum/fire. I was under the impression it was a cross made from a platinum bred to a fire. I think I understand you to say that it is not a cross. If this is correct then my my next question would respectfully be why does it have two names? This makes things very confusing in a world where there are already dozens of morphs, and dozens more on the way. Thanks again for your reply, no need to post a pic at this point I know what they look like.

NERD originally named the snake the Platinum, with the super form being the Ivory because it looks similar to the Ivory ball python. NERD has the original parents that were imported. We, in partnership with Bob Clark, picked up a pair of the original Ivory/White Fire offspring from the parents that NERD acquired. Bob came up with the name Fire and White Fire. It's just two different names for the same snake, similar to the way an Albino and an Amel are the same snake with two different names.

Patrick Powers
Manager of Prehistoric Pets

When they are breed together (platinum to platinum)(fire to fire) you get a white fire or ivory. Go to prehistoricpets.com, pythons, retiulated pythons and you will find some pics there. They are a mostly white snake with some yellow here and there.

Drew