#and pied ball pythons

[lopsidedghoul]

i lvoe snakesdssss

[chainslobber]

Happy year of the Snake from the slither squad! May you be lucky gazing upon them.

[puppyguppy]

recently deep cleaned Liku's tank and gave it a whole rescape 💛 he was a hissy pissy baby brat the entire time, like heaven forbid I keep him thriving

[l0st-r0s3]

Okay, wow yall seemed to really like Moon !!! Here's some extra photos of the silly enjoying some grass ^_^

[fellowshipofthenoodles]

You are my sunshine 💛

[id: Banoffee, the yellow, brown and white ball python with black freckles, sitting in a relaxed ball in Juniper’s hand]

[confused-canid]

Self indulgent (Panda pied) ball python therian moodboard!

[thekinschoolhouse]

Panda Pied Ball Python pfps

Requested by @confused-therian, with a cozy theme

[ghostjael]

Sunday chill mode

[furretsden-archived]

Pied ball python care kit with plushies, soft items and snake-related items for anon

🍃 🍃 🍃 | 🍃 🍃 🍃 | 🍃 🍃 🍃

[bree--ann]

My gorgeous, gorgeous boy 🥹

[puppyguppy]

happy belated year of the snake post from my beautiful bruised banana boy 💛🫰

[l0st-r0s3]

Don't know if I've shown tumblr my little baby,,

^^^^

This is the first photo I ever took of her while we were on our way home from the pet store ^_^

[millipedesandpods]

we adopted this local rescue baby (Very tiny) after i said i wouldn't be getting any more snakes... came to us with very stuck shed, a little underweight and dehrydrated but i'm very hopeful that she'll be looking so much better soon

her name is pecan pie 🥧

[falconscales]

Panda Pied Ball Python stimboard with scales and soft things for @confused-therian

Feel free to reblog!

Stimboard requests open

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[foxixus]

"Lara sketch page" Snek Lara was my first Snake oc in 2022, She's an introverted ball python (Banana pied Ball python). I have a second snake oc but haven't draw much about him (Maybe soon tho :3)

[kedreeva]

I didn't know peafowl also have incomplete dominant genes! I mainly know ball python genetics. Question, are there any incomplete dominant genes that are fine/mostly fine in het but cause health issues for the super/homo form? I can think of quite a few like that in ball pythons and a few dangerous genes in other common captive snakes.

The only incomplete dominants we have are white and white eye, where white is the total leucism gene and white eye is... either a form of pale leucism, or more likely a white spotting gene, we don't really know. The actual genome has not been mapped where the public can access it, and the mutations haven't been scientifically identified, so the genetics for them largely goes off of knowledge of genetics in general in combination with practical knowledge of what we see and how it travels and shows in the phenotype.

White shows white flights/throat latch in het form (most of the time, but it CAN be carried completely silently). White eye CAN turn some eye markings white (in the train's eye feathers), and some forms of it also cause "frosting" on the feathers where the color is diluted like it is in cases of pale leucism, where the bird looks like a window with a layer of frost covering it.

Pied is the only supposed dominant, where one copy and two copies looks the same in the phenotype, and (USUALLY) looks different from the wild type buuuuuuut it can also be carried completely silently, even in homozygous form. What people think of as a "pied" bird (by phenotype) is genetically a white/pied het (white and pied are alleles, the pied phenotype results from a bird that has one white and one pied gene).

Neither white nor white eye (nor pied) appear to have any deleterious health effects on the birds, aside from the fact that white feathers break down faster in the sun than dark feathers, so birds with more white tend to look rattier faster. Socially, white birds are sometimes rejected by colored birds, to the point where some hens have been noted to refuse mating from a white male if they can see other, colored males (even if they cannot reach the other males).

There ARE a few mutations associated with health problems. The only one that matches what you are asking about would be charcoal- where het hens can lay eggs, but homo hens do not, and for both sexes het birds do not seem to experience the same feather quality or shortened lifespan issues as homozygous birds.

The other deleterious mutations are "progressive pied" aka vitiligo (which isn't a morph, just an autoimmune issue that shows in the phenotype) which presents with autoimmune issues, and cameo which is OFTEN found with vision problems (which may or may not be directly linked with cameo, but cameo originally presented with birds that went blind a few years after maturity, and this problem was NOT weeded out properly before distribution, so cameos face a LOT higher instance of blindness than any other mutation). Fawn, in Australia, has been noted to face some of the same health complications cameo originally had (and may be or be an allele to cameo, given the similarity in phenotype), which if the mutations end up being the same or alleles may point to it being a problem, but that has yet to be proven or disproven.

There is a new, unnamed mutation in Denmark that causes weak feathers to the point the entire train "wilts" and makes the bird look like it is sopping wet, and it's unknown if the breeder will decide to perpetuate this monstrosity or not, and I don't know if heterozygous birds share that particular complication. Many are hoping the breeder doesn't breed more, but there's nothing anyone can do if he decides to go forward with it, outside of just avoid the mutation. Avoidance of mutations CAN cause a mutation to die out, as it did with Steel in Australia, but it's hard to get the "every mutation is precious and must be preserved" people on board with "some things are better left dead if it's not good for the animal."