@cold blood Awesome, that's what I thought about breeding them. Never really had this specie so Im a little in the dark on color forms. Got him as a freebie.
Sold now.
@cold blood is right. This is a normal, not a gold. He's bred them, and I own some of his. Golds are nearly patternless, and a different color, almost uniform in color too, both the males and females look identical from what I can see, minus the hooks on the MMs.
There's only 2 color forms known. The wild type, ie olive, and the gold.
@Trenor Yes, in basic genetics terminology "wild type" = normal phenotype. in this case the olive. I'm surprised you haven't seen that used in snakes. I have.
@viper69 Good info. I haven't. At reptile shows and pet stores most have just said normal pattern/color or noted what the recessive trait pattern/color was. I never got really into high dollar reptiles that had recessive traits. To me people got crazy over the value of them. Old Fred is just a regular patterned ball python.
If its just a recessive gene, then there is no reason to suspect that the gold color isn't a naturally occurring, and therefore, almost certainly would or could be a wild color.
@cold blood Yeah, that's what I've always heard dominant/recessive used.
It seems they use Wild Type to denote the color/pattern/trait that shows up most in the wild. Though that could shift (over a long time) as new traits give an advantage and are selected over the old ones. Then the new traits would become the new Wild Type.
I feel bad finding out (with my blue eyes) I'm not a wild type human...
With the diversity of our species do we even have a wild type? I mean not counting wild Uncle Gorge because he was wild for other reasons.
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