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Ball Python Colors?
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Okay I know that baby balls don't get their white when they are hatched, and that they have to grow into it. How long does it take? Should a spider ball have white sides by 3, 6, 9, 12 months? I'm not looking for specifics, but more so a range. What have you guys experienced, longest and shortest? I'm mostly curious about the white coming in for morphs like Calico, Spider, Pieds, and such.
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5/26/2010 1:46:53 AM
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bweber
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Looking at your spider, the sides aren't going to get much whiter. He looks very similar to my now gravid female when she was a baby (you can see adult photos of her on my page). My girl Charlotte is a low white spider, which I much prefer to the high white spiders. High white spiders tend to have really ugly offspring when you start breeding them for designer morphs such as bumblebees. Also, there is no definite timeline for a "coming of color", but once most of my snakes hit about 400-700 grams depending, their colors never really look much different to me. Hope this helps.
Brian
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5/26/2010 10:02:51 AM
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abi21491
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They don't really gain anything as they age, what they hatch out as is what you get. Of course the colors tend to darken as they age, but they won't gain more white. Hope this helps!
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5/26/2010 12:20:35 PM
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shellboa
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With Ball Morphs what you see is what you get as far as how much white is in the pattern or not in it as the case may be. The colors that tend to either intensify or fade as they age are the yellows and purples and on occasion you can notice some deepening of black on Sables. What is usually desireable is yellow that gets brighter and purple (lavender albino) that becomes more intense. In the case of spiders the amount of white coming up the sides does not change but can become more intense as the yellow becomes more intense and they contrast more.
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5/26/2010 1:25:09 PM
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Miss Andrea
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I was looking for an age range, I know that a baby spider isn't hatched with with sides, they start out pink and turn white as they get older. I know that the pattern on a particular snake will stay the same and only change shades of lighter or darked depending on the morph. I just wanted to know when if you have, say a high white spider, when do the sides change from the pink color to the white.
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5/26/2010 5:21:37 PM
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shellboa
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Ohhh, by the time they are one year old they have usually shed off all of the "baby coloring" and will be pretty much the color they are going to be aside from the insifying I spoke of before.
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5/27/2010 12:10:49 PM
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