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I recently purchased a very black colored ball. It was sold to me as a black granite. Any info on this morph would help.

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Not really, I breed balls and am always looking for something different to add to a project. And this one was different. And to make it better I paid what I wanted none of this $1000 and up for the next new morph.

i'm glad you are happy with what you have. Hey if it's something you want it's nobody else's business,what,when,how, or why you did it. Good luck and I hope you prove them out. People think that just because it's not something put out by a "Big" breeder, it not a morph. Morphs are discovered all the time, thats been proven many times. You can even get morphs from normal parents(granted they carry some type of mutation gene).
Again, good luck with your project.

There is another one of those replies!! Blah Blah Blah N/P!!

I would love to see pics of this special sounding animal??
Do you have any?

Check www.ballpython.com. Also look on NERD's site (forgot url, it's on the top of the forum, though). Both have guides to morphs.

I don't think that what you have is a proven morph. If it were, it would have cost you in the thousands. I'm not sure if there's even a granite morph proven in balls, let alone a black granite. Unfortunately, every snake that shows some varience is labelled as a morph and sold at an inflated price. In some cases, it's not really that much, so you're just paying a premium for an unusual looking snake, and if you find it attractive, that can be a fair deal.

I'd go more into what's a morph vs. what's just a variant on a normal ball python, but Dan and Collette Sutherland have already done so, and undoubtably a better job than I could do at 4:30 a.m. Check their site (ballpython.com is them) under the Information link.

If the snake looks cool and you're happy with the price you paid, then you got a good deal. (Though you might be able to find the same look for less, some herps are way undervalued anyway IMO. Life should be more valuable than it is sometimes.)