Piebald?

[Chu'Wuti]

Mykee, I keep coming back to this thread just to look at those gorgeous piebalds . . . I think I'm falling in love . . .

[siz]

Haha, so do I...

[dannywyze]

you breed a anxanthic with an albino. thats it. youll get at least two piebalds a clutch if you breed those teo snakes. niether one is cheap.

[mykee]

"you breed a anxanthic with an albino. thats it. youll get at least two piebalds a clutch if you breed those teo snakes. niether one is cheap"

Nope. have you ever read a single book on ball pythons?!
You're just FULL of bad information, aren't you?
Breeding an albino to an axanthic will give you all normal looking ball pythons that are both het for albino and axanthic.
You will need to hold back a male and female from that clutch and breed them together in the chances of getting either an albino, an axanthic, or a lucy.
ZERO piebald babies will EVER come from an albin oto axanthic breeding.
That's like saying breeding two dogs will give you kittens.

[Aaron_S]

Originally Posted by mykee

You will need to hold back a male and female from that clutch and breed them together in the chances of getting either an albino, an axanthic, or a lucy.

I thought these were called snows? Since it still leaves a noticable pattern on the snake, although white? I could be wrong. I am legitmately asking. Besides who does this anyways? Only Ralph Davis and maybe a few others tried right before the mojaves and lessers proved to be a quicker route to the an all white snake.

[mykee]

Aaron, you're right in the sense that that is their "given' name by the community, but the true definition of an animal lacking any colour but white is leucistic. They're all leucistic to me, except of course, for the super mojave but that's another story...

[Aaron_S]

Then what would an ivory be considered? They tend to have that yellow colouration down the spine and tend to get some darker colour around the face.

[mykee]

Still a lucy. Any animal lacking the brown (and all associated palette) and yellows (and all associated palette) are considered lucies.

[Aaron_S]

But the ivory has the yellow on the back correct? So it's not lacking ALL yellow, just most of it... I'm sure you're right though until proven otherwise.

[mykee]

Most "white snakes" have a yellow stripe to varying degrees on their backs...

[Pliskin]

Originally Posted by angie_85

I was just wondering how you get this type of snake? Do you breed 2 different colors together and just hope that this happens? I think that they are beautiful and was just wondering.

hi,

here's a couple of links you might find useful

Markus Jayne, Ball pythons | ballpython.ca

clicking on the link will show more info on the recessiveness/dominance of the genes.
that one page has BP's of all colours of the rainbow, some awesome looking snakes.

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