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Has anyone tried crossing a Buter Scotch Ghost to a Orange Ghost. Are they compatable or would I get a bunch of double 100% Hets? Any info would be appreciated.

most ghosts are the same thing only different

butterscotch and orange,and yellow and greens.......

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Orange, yellow, butterscotch, etc., are all the same thing. The color varies as the normal pigment in ball pythons varies.

Thanks, I was thinking the same thing but was unsure. So by breeding a Butter Scotch x Orange Ghost it could throw both colors, right?

my babies are born bright orange or yellow and as adults they are green or yellow

I learned the hard way this year. My friends male ghost wasn't breeding so he lent me some ghost females to breed to my male ghosts and one clutch from my male orange ghost to his butterscotch female produced no ghosts. This seems to be the exception but there are incompatible lines.

George

There are always exceptions to every rule but I would say that the very vast majority are the same thing. I have bred unrelated animals from different breeders who started with African animals to each other and to other lines and I have never had a problem.

How did your friend's other ghost females do bred to your ghost male? Was the female that produced no ghosts proven or related to the other females?

Female one was bred first by his ghost male early in the season and then by my Orange Ghost male and produced 3 ghosts and 1 double het. The Ghosts produced looked more like Orange ghosts than butterscotch. First year breeding.

Female two was bred by my Orange ghost male and produced no ghosts. First year breeding.

Female three was bred by my Butterscotch ghost male and produced all ghosts. She was a proven breeder.

All three females were unrelated.

George

Hopefully some day we'll have an inexpensive commercial paternity test for ball pythons. It would be nice to be sure your male was the father.

A guy in my state bred his ghost to a pastel years ago when pastel het ghost where big dollars and was very disappointed when she produced all ghosts with retained sperm from the year before. I could understand his feelings but a clutch of ghosts isn't all that bad, lol.

This is the second year I did it. I have a bell line butterscotch and a nerd line orange ghost(hypo). They all hatched out and some had more of the orange tones while others were more along the butterscotch line. The butterscotch are a flat yellow with a smoke like fade in the dark or black part of the pattern. The orange ghost really step up the volume on color (make it brighter). And, as far as the black or dark area goes, it's sort of tan or beige. When you cross the two, it comes out more like a butterscotch ghost but the area with the flat yellow has a type of bright orange flecking in it. My opinion is that the butterscotch would really make the mojave hypo look even that much better because of the yellow effect on the mojave. I think the orange would make a carmel glow look great as well. However, the butterscotch/orange cross would make either look great. I also think it would make a pastel ghost(hypo) look really awesome. The orange accents that color and really brings it out. The yellow makes the animal more faded overall. Thanks for your time and I hope I was able to shine a (dim) light on the subject.