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i would like to know exactly which ball python morphs have a clear shed? or what type of coloration is there in each morph's sheddings? thank you all for your help.

I know that genetic ghost are supposed to shed clear (no black pigment showing the pattern in the shed).

I would assume that albinos shed clear just because they don't have black pigment but I don't have first hand experience.

What I'd really like to know is how some of the rarer morphs such as desert ghost, platy, banana, etc. shed. And also how these ones that suddenly turn axanthic and then start getting darker with yellow creeping in on the back shed.

Here is an import girl I bought this year. She shed clear at just under 700 grams but now that she is pushing 1,200 grams she is darker with more odd yellow and leaves a little dark pigment in her shed (still much less than normals). I think she might be following the same pattern as Ralph Davis' "Dirty Joe" but of course may or may not be anything related (I don't know how my import looked as a hatchling). I was hoping she was the same as Alvaro Garcia's "Silver Ghost" but he hasn't picked up the yellow and still sheds clear.