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This is part of our collection of Ball/ Royal Morphs. To see what we have available check our
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Albino
Simple Recessive color mutation
- the first Ball python mutation. T- Albinos
are still a favorite.
They have been mixed with multiple
mutations to
produce new Albino designer morphs, these include: Albino Spiders, Albino Pinstripes,
Albino Ghosts (Sunglows), Albino Pastels, Albino Pieds, etc.
One of the most highly awaited new designer snakes is
the Super Cinnamon Albino should be an all yellow snake.
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Axanthic
Simple Recessive
color mutation – Axanthics lack
yellow pigmentation. As babies they are silver and black and
look out of this world.
Axanthics are a base mutation required to
make Snows, Axanthic Pastels, Axanthic Spiders and true
Ghosts (Hypo X Axanthic).
We are working with the VPI line of
Axanthics.
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Aztec Ball
Unproven
mutation – outstanding yellow
stripe and sides, very good lateral and head blushing and
with a clear belly .... all the markers that this is a new
mutation ...
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Black Pastel
Co-dominant
color & pattern
mutation – are stunning animals
with rich, deep velvety colors - they are a extreme color variety of
Cinnamon Pastel.
Black Pastels are key to producing some of the
best looking designer morphs like Black Pastel Pewters,
Silver Bullets and the homozygous or
super phase, the patternless black Ball, the Super
Black Pastel. The hypo Black pastel is also one of our
favorite ball python morphs.
We are working with the Ian G and Gulf Coast
lines.

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Butter Ball
Co-dominant
color mutation - Butters are
like Lessers with a better, more yellow paint job. The super
form is a very clean Blue eyed Lucy. Butters are great for
making clean, bright designer morphs like Butter Pastels,
Hypo Butters, Butterbees (Butter x Spider), etc. No matter
what you breed a Butter to, the results are stunning.
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Super Chocolate photo copyright Celia
Chien
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Chocolate Ball
Co-dominant
color mutation - Chocolate Balls are
one of the nicest morphs available. They are a blushed brown
with floating aliens and a dark mottled belly. The super
Chocolate is just outstanding. They have been mixed with
several other mutations to produce Pastel Chocolates, Super
Chocolates, Chocolate Pinstripes, Chocolate Spinners and the
best of all the Super Chocolate Pastel.
We are working with our own Berry line of
Chocolates and aim
to mix them in with several mutations in the future.
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Cinnamon & Pewter
Co-dominant pattern and
color mutation
– Cinnamons are one of the most important
foundation color and pattern mutations. Especially as the the super form is the
patternless, all black Super Cinnamon.
Cinnamons are used to produce numerous other stunning multi
gene designer morphs. These include Pewters (Pastel x
Cinnamon), Hypo Cinnamons (Hypo/ Ghost x Cinnamon), Sterling
Pastel (Cinnamon x Super Pastel), Albino Cinnamon, Pied
Cinnamon. There are still many Cinnamon combinations which
haven't been produced yet. We should see several of them for the
first time this year as the more recessive x Cinnamon
projects are hatched.
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Enchi Pastel
Co-dominant
color & pattern mutation - Enchis have a
velvet looking pattern that lends itself to mixing with our
morphs. The super, homozygous form is the Super Enchi
Pastel.
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Fire Ball/ het Black
eyed Leucistic
Dominant
color mutation :
The Fire Ball is a subtle
mutation that lightens the color of any designer morphs
combinations it is added to, like the Pastel Fires and Ghost
Fires.
The super form is a Black
eyed Leucistic.
Fire Balls
are also referred to as Flame or Codominant Hypos by several
breeders. There is still plenty of work to be done with new
Fire influenced morphs.
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Ghost (Hypo)
Simple Recessive pattern mutation
- Ghosts or to more accurate, Hypos are a key ingredient to producing many other
designer morphs. You can’t go wrong with Hypos as the
demand for them continues to grow !
Designer morphs
created with Hypos include - Pastel hypos, Spider Ghosts/
Honey Bee, Hypo Mojave, Hypo Cinnamons, Hypo Pieds , Hypo
Pinstripe,
Hypo everything else !! No matter what you mix the Hypo gene
with it produces an outstanding result.
We are working with both Orange (middle & top photos) and Yellow Hypo
(bottom photo) lines.
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Honey Cinnamon
New mutation
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Honey Cinnamons have orange-brownish heads, almost no head stripe and a
clear belly. When
mixed with other mutations they should produce some
outstanding new designer morphs. This project is still in
its infancy.
As adults they one of the nicest looking Ball
pythons around !

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Mojave Ball
Codominant color mutation
- Mojaves have an almost ghostly look to them.
They are highly variable with lots of blushing. When bred
together the super form is an a blue eyed
Leucistic with a purple wash. Breeding
with a Lesser Platty or the Russo Lemon line also produces
a blue eyed Leucistic.
Other designer crosses include
Granite Mojaves, Striped Mojaves, Hypo Mojaves, Yellow Belly
Mojave and the Spider Mojave ... overall an excellent
mutation on their own or to create designer morphs with.

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Pastel
& Super Pastel
Co-dominant
color mutation
- Pastels are a basic color mutation. When added
to almost any other mutation their reduced melanin and high
yellow color produces cleaner, brighter designer morphs.
Examples include Bumblebees (Pastel x Spider), Pewters
(Pastel x Cinnamon or Black Pastel), Hypo Pastel (Ghost x
Pastel), Lemon Blast (Pastel x Pinstripe), Pastaves (Pastel
x Mojave), Pastel Vanillas, Pastel Fires, Pastel Butters,
Pastel Lessers, etc.
The dominant form, the Super Pastel has an even more
dramatic reduced melanin/high yellow look. When bred to a
normal, a Super pastel produces a litter of all Pastels.

We are working with numerous lines of
Pastel including our own imported farmed lines and Lemon
Pastels.
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Pinstripe & Lemon Blast
Co-dominant
pattern & color mutation – Pinstripes are one
of our favorite mutations. They make some of the best combos around like Lemon
Blasts, Albino Pins, King Pins (Lesser x Pinstripe) &
Spinners (Spider x Pinstripe).

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Spider, Albino Spider & Honey Bee
Dominant
pattern mutation - Spiders are important
pattern mutations and have been bred to produce dozens of
funky designer morphs, like Bumble Bees, Lesser Bees, Killer
Bees and many others. (see our book, Designer Morphs for the
complete list)
We are working with a nice group of Spiders, Albino
Spiders and Hypo Spiders/ Honey Bees and other combinations.

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Vanilla & Hypo Vanilla
Co-dominant
color mutation - Vanilla Balls (also
called Thunders) are a clean mutation with a
hypo-ish, melanin reduction type of action. They can be used
to clean up other morphs. In effect they are like co-dom
hypos.
So far Vanillas have been mixed to produce Pastel, Mojave,
Black Pastel, Yellow Belly, Bumbe Bee &
Hypo Vanilla designer morphs. We are sure to see many new
Vanilla designer mixes this year.
The dominant super version, the Super Vanilla (Lighting Ball), is an
outstanding, clean yellow with a blushed out head pattern.
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Woma
Co-dominant
pattern mutation
Womas have a highly reduced pattern (some look like Spiders)
and strong head markers. Womas are the key to
produce numerous designer morphs. Our favorite Woma crosses
are with Mojaves & Lessers.
There is a super form, however not many have been produced
yet. There is some debate regarding some lines of Woma
carrying another gene however results are inconclusive.
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Yellow Belly/ het Ivory/
Ivory
Co-dominant color mutation
– Yellow Bellies are
beautiful animals with rich yellow and black colors. The
real beauty of this morph is seen when they are crossed with
other morphs. The
homozygous or super form is the leucistic Ivory Ball.
We consider Yellow Bellies one of the most important
foundation morphs in a breeders arsenal. They are needed to produce the Super
Striper, Ebony, Pastel Mojave or Pastave, Pastel YB
(see photos below),
Pastel Ivory, YB BumbleBee, YB
Spider and potentially dozens more designer morphs.
As we see more proven double mutation morphs
(that is morphs displaying multiple proven mutations)
breeding and producing, the power of the Yellow Belly gene
will be appreciated even more. I'm waiting to see what an
Ivory Super Pastel or an Ivory Super Cinnamon will look like.
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Yellow Belly Pastel
Designer morph:
A Pastel with more genes under
the hood. The double co-dominant gene set allows will
produce multi mutation designer morphs quicker.
Yellow Belly Pastels are key to producing
killer YB Bumble Bees and any other morph where you would
use a regular Pastel. The Pastel Ivory is an outstanding
example and adds another whole dimension (and set of color) to the
Leucistic Ivory.
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Unproven
Some of our interesting unproven females we are currently
working with.
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