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Candino ball python, Cloud

DuxorW

DuxorW

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Here is my baby Candino ball python. If you are not that familiar with ball python morphs, candy is a recessive mutation but is allelic to albino. So, for example, crossing a candy to an albino would yield all candinos. Candies look like lavender albinos on steroids as babies and juveniles, but apparently brown out as adults. Candinos were first produced in 2012 (I think) so nobody knows if they will stay purple and yellow or for how long. Maybe they will stay purple, maybe they will develop half as much pigmentation, or maybe they will get just as brown as a candy but take twice as long. So this friendly little guy should make a great progression thread! He would only eat live mice (and only sometimes) when I got him but I have already gotten him switched to frozen thawed rats with a little trick that has worked well for me.



I think you can see his purples coming through already, and he is only about 80 grams.
 
He says thanks!

hypnoctopus said:
Very pretty! I'm not a fan of most ball python morphs, but I like this one a lot.
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I am with you on this, although I'm not sure there is anything cuter than a head on shot of a baby ball python face! 99% of ball morphs don't really do anything for me, especially considering their price. I can count the morphs I like on my fingers (super cinny, BELs, mystic potion, albinos, bananas, pumas, pieds, and maybe a few others) and some of them are only attractive as babies. I am mostly a fan of reds, purples, pinks, yellows, and solid white/black snakes. Reds/oranges are something that is really missing from royals. There is the sunset mutation which is beautiful alone and will probably make some outrageous combos, but a pair of hets is 35k! And to me something as simple as a coral sunglow boa is more beautiful than most bp morphs. Also, I think a high quality normal with nice gold hues is prettier than most mutations. But I guess the good thing about corns and ball pythons is that there really is something for everyone!
 
I think he will make a great boyfriend someday for my albino spider, who is my only other ball python. She's so beautiful and sweet.

 
DuxorW said:
So, for example, crossing a candy to an albino would yield all candinos.
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Also, I plugged that in to WOB and it said if you crossed an albino and candy you would get all normals that were double het for candino (het albino het candy). So to get candinos you would need to pair an albino het candy to a candy het albino.

Or I guess you could pair two normals who were double het for candino


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The WOB genetics wizard is wrong, as it doesn't account for the fact that albino and candy are allelic (ie, they are both different mutations in the same gene). A ball python het for candy and het for albino will show the candino phenotype because they have no wild type allele at the albino locus.

I'll send you my trick over PM shortly!
 
He shed a couple days ago and the purples are starting to come through more. This is crappy artificial lighting but hopefully I can get a pic in natural lighting when I feed him tomorrow (maybe he'll let me get his face in it next time). He was being *very* active. If I didn't know better I would say this little guy is affectionate. Definitely not your typical ball python. Words can't describe how much I adore him!

 
Quick update. His purples are really coming through but the camera just won't do them justice, it's like trying to take pictures of coral snows. Plus he's on a mission to explore the world!





 
Very nice. Love that lavender base. Hope he keeps it up.
I love my bps, such easy going animals. My favorite is my queen bee.
 
His purples get darker with every shed...I wonder what he will look like when they are fully developed? Sadly the camera turns his purples into more of a grayish color :/

 
Oh man, I can't wait to see him grow even more! Im loving seeing how all these different snakes grow and change!
 
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