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What is she?
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Forgive my lousy pics...I borrowed my dad's "real" camera to snap a few pics but I don't have much time to mess with it now...I'm off to the Dr. as soon as I finish typing this. My swimmer's ear has turned into a horrible ear infection.

I think she looks almost like a Killerbee, but the paring was Spider x Pastel. This is the first bee we've hatched here, but she doesn't look like what I was expecting. And of course, I'm sure the weirdness came from mom, and this bee and an odd looking Pastel are girls. Because I really need more holdbacks...yeah right. Here's the funky Pastel, too.

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Thanks for looking, I will try and get better pics later...
 
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The first one def looks like a killer bee to me and that is one hot pastel in the second pic! I would also agree they are keepers. Looking good
 
Well, I wouldn't have a problem with the killerbee idea...except the part about how it takes two pastel parents to make a killerbee.
That said, there's clearly something more going on with those two...so at least one of the parents is likely to be hiding something. I agree that we'd need pics of them to help sort it out. Of course, that could bring you back to taking extra looks at the other babies.
 
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Well, I wouldn't have a problem with the killerbee idea...except the part about how it takes two pastel parents to make a killerbee.
That said, there's clearly something more going on with those two...so at least one of the parents is likely to be hiding something. I agree that we'd need pics of them to help sort it out. Of course, that could bring you back to taking extra looks at the other babies.
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Haha, I don't actually think she's a killerbee...I know how that whole 2 Pastel thing works. I just couldn't think of a better way to describe her. I'm gonna have to get some pics of mom. She's a relatively normal Pastel, but she does have alot of flames. Last year she was bred to our Fire, and we got 3 nice Pastels and one normal. The normal was really light, and had the flames, but I sold her as a pretty normal. The Spider male has bred several seasons for us, without any surprises, so my guess is something going with mom, or an interaction between the two. I don't think its a YB thing....what other morphs are subtle like that? An interesting note, we got mom as part of a collection sale, and I have hatched a few other odd things from others in the group. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't crazy for thinking these two were different...
 
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Mom has been maternally incubating...I went to take a picture of her, but she isn't really a fan of the idea, so I guess I'll do that later. There are 4 more eggs, and I think they are all Spiders from what I can see. Here's an old pic of her clutch from last year, it doesn't do the little normal justice really, but you get the idea. I know I have a better pic somewhere, from when I sold her, so I will have to find it.

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That first picture looks like a Chocolate Chip morph that I ran across on the World of Ball Pythons web page. I believe that there is Spider, pastel and Sable in that combination. Take a look for yourself under the Genetic header and see if you agree.
 
Hi Everyone! I don't get a chance to post here much, but I agree with you Michael K. Losey. I saw the same picture on the NERD website and told Shelly to take a look. They don't give the "combination" on their website though on what the morph consisted of. Thanks! I looked up the picture of a Mudball which is a Pastel Sable. I have often thought these "Lemon Pastels" we got in this collection sale were a bit dull looking for Lemon Pastels. Now I really want to get a better picture of her posted because I think we might be onto something here.

Justin Kobylka talks about the Chocolate Chip as being a Chocolate/Pastel/Spider, but World of Ball Python says Sable/Pastel/Spider. My question would be then, does anyone know how to tell a chocolate from a sable? There is a picture of both a Chocolate/Pastel/Spider and a Sable/Pastel/Spider on World of Ball Python. They do look slightly different.
 
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They've all shed. We have 0.1 funky Bee, 0.1 funky Pastel, and 2.3 Spiders. Here are a few pics of the Bee.
 

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