Dovetail
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Here is Titania, a foundling ball python (425.24 grams, 31 inches long) of unknown lineage. I traded a box of dubia nymphs for her when her previous owner, who'd purchased her from Petsmart for $120, decided she'd had enough of her puffing, hissing, and general strikiness.
We assumed she was a banana lesser pastel for a few reasons:
1. Local Petsmarts only carried normals and bananas this winter, and we assumed she was a mismarked banana tossed in with a bunch of "assorted" (AKA normals). I have no experience with the banana morph, so I wouldn't know what traits appear on "the checklist."
2. Her sides show a lovely fading upward to pattern from creamy white scutes, and her high yellowness is pronounced. She looks like banana taffy!
3. She has green and gold eyes
4. Her dark markings have that beautiful high blushing prevalent in pastels and white lips, though no fading on her pate. It is the color of burnt almonds, like her temple stripe.
So I present: exceptionally clean pattern, high yellow coloration, green eyes, white lips, clean white scutes, extreme pattern fade-up on sides, heavy blushing apparent in dark markings, and a developing white highlight around the edges of yellow markings lower down, nearer to her scutes, one black scale I suspect will shed out.
What is your very best assessment of this girl's heritage?
Butter? Enchi? Super Enchi? Pastel? Orange Ghost? Is there Banana there at all???
I will GREATLY appreciate your input, as everything I know about identifying morphs, I have either read or watched on your YouTube videos. And regardless of her heritage, I adore this beautiful, bitey-fighty girl, so don't worry about gilding the lily: if her morph were called "dreadful seepage," she'd be just as lovely to me.
We assumed she was a banana lesser pastel for a few reasons:
1. Local Petsmarts only carried normals and bananas this winter, and we assumed she was a mismarked banana tossed in with a bunch of "assorted" (AKA normals). I have no experience with the banana morph, so I wouldn't know what traits appear on "the checklist."
2. Her sides show a lovely fading upward to pattern from creamy white scutes, and her high yellowness is pronounced. She looks like banana taffy!
3. She has green and gold eyes
4. Her dark markings have that beautiful high blushing prevalent in pastels and white lips, though no fading on her pate. It is the color of burnt almonds, like her temple stripe.
So I present: exceptionally clean pattern, high yellow coloration, green eyes, white lips, clean white scutes, extreme pattern fade-up on sides, heavy blushing apparent in dark markings, and a developing white highlight around the edges of yellow markings lower down, nearer to her scutes, one black scale I suspect will shed out.
What is your very best assessment of this girl's heritage?
Butter? Enchi? Super Enchi? Pastel? Orange Ghost? Is there Banana there at all???
I will GREATLY appreciate your input, as everything I know about identifying morphs, I have either read or watched on your YouTube videos. And regardless of her heritage, I adore this beautiful, bitey-fighty girl, so don't worry about gilding the lily: if her morph were called "dreadful seepage," she'd be just as lovely to me.
