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I have this Ball Python, and someone I know says he thinks its a Yellow Belly, I said its not, curious what you all think.

I don't think it is...while it does have a yellowish colored belly, I don't see it being a Yellow Belly...what do you think? Does it look like a yellow belly to you? help me settle this..lol

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It looks to be more of a Black Pastel...the yellow belly isnt refering to the under belly scalation. It has more to do with the flames being yellow along the belly instead of white or black. Typically the animal has a head spot and good amounts of bushing throughout the back portion but not always.

It is actually a VPI Satin Black Pastel, It had a cool looking belly, and thats what I said too, just becuase the belly has that yellow look to it, doesn't mean its a yellow belly...but he was saying the sides of the belly had that yellow belly look too....but I said it isn't...

Thanks for the reply...
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Here is a side by side...with the two Yellow Bellies I just got...

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I would say that its not an yellowbelly. Just a very nice looking normal. I could be wrong. I have 2 yellowbellies myself, they have clean white bellies with yellow flames. I noticed the aliens are more yellow with pitch black along with the fades around the body.

n/p

Black Pastels just tend to have that kind of belly.
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I personally haven't seen to many black pastel bellies...so its good to know they have bellies that look like this...

Thanks for the reply...
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I'd definitely pursue trying to prove him out. I'm very "dinking" friendly though. (Don't worry, it's not true what they say about it making you go blind).

So you think it kinda does look like a Yellow Belly then?
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Part of why i would say no besides the fact that its a Black pastel is that there really are no flames to speak of in the black patterns near the belly. Compare that to your pic of your yb's. Thats a major difference as someone else stated.

If a Yellow Belly was bred to a Black Pastel, and the resulting offspring could be Yellow Belly Black Pastels, what do you think breeding those YBblack pastels would create? Could there be such a thing as a Patternless Black Ivory? of would one super cancel the other out?
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I wonder the same thing about what the supers would do to each other. I hope someone has the answer for us soon. Maybe this coming season.

I asked this question a long time ago, but in the case of say a Mojave x Black Pastel creating a Black Mojave...those bred together with the supers being such "Polar Opposites" it would be really wicked to see a Patternless black snake with blue eyes...woudn't it...lol

Someone said that the Lucy (Super Mojave) would cancel out the Super Black...

But it would be cool if the body was a patternless black, but it retained the ice blue eyes of a lucy...
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Maybe it will be a nice gray color with blue eyes. That would be nice too.

Yeah, I didn't pick up on it already being a black pastel. I just assumed it was a "normal". Sorry to provoke false hope. I tend to be very "glass is half full" when it comes to morph possibilities. I can't help it.

does not look like a yb--kind of looks like a granite. If it is a female-raise it up a breed it.

Looks like a black pastel, either way not a y.b
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