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The VPI axanthic and the burgundy-albino are good representatives of opposite ends of the color spectrum of ball pythons.

The burgundy-albino has been a difficult animal for us to get a picture that is “right on the money,” but this close-up picture is very close to exactly what she looks like.

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There’s a picture of this pair breeding posted at the Breeders Bragging Post at VPI.com.

Breeder's Bragging Post

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I LOVE that Burgundy albino, is that the same one that was in your video? Mark Petros

Yes, that's the same girl that is shown in the All About Ball Pythons video. The video was filmed nearly two years ago, now, so she's much better established and I think better looking than then.
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what are you trying to produce? Normals?
just wondering.

I think this cross could make a "true ghost" type animal down the road. Basically something like a ghost corn snake with a very light grey on white pattern. I guess time will tell.

It seems to me that axanthic X caramel could also be rather interesting. With the axanthic X ghost in the works there may be three or more types of “true ghost” like balls in the future.

I’m glad to see some interesting crosses from the start. It seems like most start a new morph out breeding to normals and while there is merit to figuring out the new morph first I’m too impatient to see the crosses so why not start off heading that way.

You're right, Randy. We can gleen a lot of information from this cross, make some interesting double-hets, and go ahead and make more burgundy-albinos as well.

Since we know the pattern of inheritance for the VPI axanthic appearance is as a simple recessive trait, then if the burgundy-albino appearance should turn out to inherited as a co-cominant or dominant trait, we will see burgundy-albinos in the babies produced by this breeding.

If the babies produced by this cross are all normal in appearance, then we will assume that the burgundy-albino appearance is a simple recessive trait and that all the babies are double-hets. We'll raise them and breed them to each other, plus we will breed one of the males to the burgundy-albino herself.

If the odds gods are smiling, the double-het crosses can produce normals (with a potential of three types of hets) plus burgundy-albinos, axanthics, and whatever the double-homozygous recessives look like.

The son bred back to the mother should produce 50% burgundy-albinos, and everything in the clutch has a 50% chance of being het-axanthic.

Our VPI axanthics have essentially no yellow pigments and the burgundy-albino has no black pigments--who knows what the cross might look like? It should be interesting and it might be GORGEOUS. We'll just have to wait and see...
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Nice close up you took! I wonder how long it will take me to get eggs from my 2000 het xanthic? The ball morphs are just end less.

When will PA get some sun?

I only have 3 regular albinos.

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RicK Denmon

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