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Weird looking spider ball python...

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Hey guys, this was my first year breeding ball pythons the pairing was a spider no hets to a female normal 100% get albino. I got 4 healthy eggs that all hatched. I got amazing odds and got 3 spiders poss her albino and one normal poss het albino but he has the trackers. My problem is one spider came out super super yellow like its a bumble bee. Anyone have any insight on what's going on with it? There is no way pastel is any of the parents.
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The bottom 2 pics are the regular spiders


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Nope. Only BPS I had at the time of breeding was the male spider, female 100%het albino, and a male 100% het albino (who wasn't ready to breed)


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Perhaps the result of retained sperm from prior season's breeding.
'Course, if you know, 100%, that she has never been bred, before, this can be ruled out.

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Pasodama said:
Perhaps the result of retained sperm from prior season's breeding.
'Course, if you know, 100%, that she has never been bred, before, this can be ruled out.

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Female was never bred got her as a hatchling. Posting pic of father also
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He is about to shed so not the best of pics


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Okay, last try for me. Can you post pictures of the Mother than please, and belly. Thanks
 
I no longer have the snake nor do I have a pic. Had some on my last phone but that one broke. But she literally looked like any other normal ball python but she had the belly tracks


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Actually found some pics!
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No belly pics tho


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Mom looks interesting, but given the fertility issues in PE (dominant) deserts, we can rule that out. The yellowed out photos are really making this difficult. Can you take a picture of all three snakes together under a white light? It's possible the male is a low grade bumblebee. Can you also please post photos of the entire clutch?
 
I believe the first picture of the mom is when she was ovulating and glowing. I no longer have the mom just the dad and 3 of the babies. 1 normal poss het albino 1 spider poss het albino and then the yellow one. I can try and take better pics tomorrow morning


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Looks more like orange dream spider than pastel or desert as some have suggested.
 
tkurt said:
I believe the first picture of the mom is when she was ovulating and glowing. I no longer have the mom just the dad and 3 of the babies. 1 normal poss het albino 1 spider poss het albino and then the yellow one. I can try and take better pics tomorrow morning


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Pics of the siblings would be better at this point, the non-spider parent does have a "look" but the pics aren't too good, but I beleive it looks most like orange dream and an orange dream on its own is something many people would pass off as a normal, so maybe we will notice something you didnt? OD is just an example, not sayin that's what I beleive yours is, similar but still not what I think.
 
I paid 35$ for the female normal het albino which is why I didn't think OD could be in there. I'll post updated pics of the yellow snake and the 2 other siblings I have after work tonight


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Here are updated pics. I'm not very good at taking good pics so I just took a bunch some with flash and some with no flash and a flash light
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Here are the siblings I still have

Spider poss het albino
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And the normal poss het albino
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