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If it werent for Ralph Davis....I dont think the term "Dinking" would be where it is today........

Its not a MAJOR player for the coolest ball award..........but to me........its pretty sweet........and its nice to see the fruits of my labor.

Back in 2002 I got this neat little female that had a lot of orange coloration & a lot of "blushing" much like a pastel or mojave does......

She has wicked Green eyes like a pastel too......

So I figured I'd raise her up and put her to a pastel to see what happens.........

Well.........much to my suprise.......I got 5 eggs in the clutch which resulted in 1 Pastel Cross, 3 Morphs & 1 normal. Just to identify them, I am calling them "Apricot" Balls since they have an apricot orange color to them.

Here is the clutch after hatching.

Here is a small belly shot of one of the Apricots next to the Pastels head......the apricot color wraps around into the belly of the snakes....which is interesting. It has a similar color to that of a ringer.

Here is the Apricot Pastel Jungle.......he has a very intense yellow coloration with an orange/pink hue to it.....the pattern also has a lot more blushing than I have seen in pastels.......not to mention a very strange pattern.....he has large patches of blushed out pattern......

Left side....

Right side....

Awesome color.....

And finally a head shot of the little boy........

Like I said..........It's no leucistic.......but its still exciting to produce something new and different.....no matter what it is. This is why I do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now to raise all of them up, breed them out and see if there is a "super" hiding in there somewhere.

Arent balls great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Keep Dinking!

Jared Horenstein
Royal Python Reptiles
Apricot Ball Python

Nice one Jared!! Lets hope theres a super in there somwhere! Thats what is sooo cool about keeping these snakes........$$$ are nice but my motivation is just hatching out eggs.......hell I even like the normals!!(just not too many!)

Finally.....an new morph that is not white. It goes to show that the non-white animals are cool as hell too.

Smokin' @$$ male......

Jason

great looking snake. white snakes are nice, but i think color is better. i love the pattern on the last side shots. good job.

Deal

NP
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very happy for you!!!! congrats!
i have a question. ive tried to post like three pictures at one time. how did you do it? how did you post alot like you did?

You have to use HTML coding. If you type a phrase like then put the codes below it. Like this:

My Ball Python

If your photo is in KS gallery you can right click on it and copy the properties. That is what you paste between the [IMG] codes

Make sure you use the squared brackets and don't forget the forward slash in the second bracket before the IMG. Use lower case. By using those brackets for each photo you can put as many as you want in the post. Th ephoto has to be on the net somewhere that allows you to display it. For example KS's gallery allows you to display it elswhere and a place like webshots does not.

Hope that helps. You can always go to an old thread a couple days old and practice posting multiple pics until you get it right.
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Hi Jared
Congrats, I produced a very similar pastel this year.Below are pics of him and a sibling.