One of my favorite snakes I have is big mama my 4100 gram normal female who just gave me my second clutch. Normally she’s super friendly but in the video you can hear her freaking out lol

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

LOL

You are the best person to watch for learning ball python morphs and how to identify them! Thank you so much! Awesome videos!

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

So nice of you!

that is my snake i sent you that’s so cool!!

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! 👍😎✌

@karyannfontaine8757

4 жыл бұрын

Rally nice snake!

@robertmyers4523

4 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures how do I send you a picture of my "normal" ball python I need help identifying

@P4ULM4C

3 жыл бұрын

My normal has the same line goes from the underside of the eye down to back of the jaw

@benmarlo5064

2 жыл бұрын

Mine has it to.

Another job well done Chris. Keep up the good work.

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, will do!

Well in Chris , hitting it off with the info again ✌🏻

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

Always!

Sometimes you think you have a normal snakes and never know what real you have and let go !!thanks Chris for this value video . from tx 👍👍

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

I know, I let some normals go I probably should have kept!

Thanks for the info man! Especially about the scaless head!

@thereptiledude7247

4 жыл бұрын

I have a snake with a split belly scale. I have to look in the morning and see where it is in my collection. I thought the previous owner kept it way wrong and it had a bad shed so it lost some scales but it may be a scaleless head now. Either way he is a really good snake

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

Happy to help!

@thereptiledude7247

4 жыл бұрын

Chris Hardwick love your channel brother. One day you will be shipping me a bamboo hahaha. So it’s his/her 3rd scale from the vent that’s split. Guess it was just poor husbandry on the old owners part on why its missing scales. Which I know can happen frkm poor humidity/sheds. I say he/she because I cannot pop hemipeens which I can do on any other snake in the world and it has the smallest tail I have ever seen lol. I don’t breed anymore, just breed leopard geckos, so I sold off my probes and other items. Guess I’ll take it to a buddies to sex it. I do have this tool that’s used in stamp making that looks like a probe though lol. It’s a metal rod with a ball on the end. Haha. Don’t worry I’m not going to stick a random foreign object up my snake haha. Anyway love your videos! Keep it real! Andy

@thereptiledude7247

4 жыл бұрын

Chris Hardwick oh and my “normal” I was talking about has a yellow striped tail and has a weird line thing under it’s eye lol

New to the hobby and new to the channel. Looking forward to checking out all at videos and learning a whole lot. Just got 2 normals not looking to breed rite now since im new and learning alot....

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

Welcome to my channel! 👍😎✌

@deadmanomegagaming4061

4 жыл бұрын

May you be blessed by bobby the ball python god

My Raven bp visually looks normal and also has that same marking under its mouth which I have never seen before until your video.

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting!

Thanks! Learn a lot.

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Hi Chris, could you do a video on the red gene and the ringer gene please?! Love you channel!!

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

Sure thing, I"ll put it on the list!

Do you have a link so I can send a photo I need help identifying mine

great info on scaleless heads

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

👍😎✌

I have what I've been calling a "Dinker" female normal. Parent s were a leopard x pinstripe. She has a super marked up belly couple real high flames, section of over the back chained alien heads and what seems to be alot of extra cheerios. She hads really define water mark under her eyes, very light faded head stamp shaped like a butterfly, and that very same eye mark stripe you showed toward video end. With the leopard she may or may not be het for pied (can't hurt to hope). She doesn't display the long sharpie track towards vent but does display a small short track on either side. Will try to prove out the pied with a visual pied. If she doesn't prove, at least I've made some 100% het neonates, and she's gorgeous either way. Thanks for the content. Following consistently

The markings under the Classic Ball Python's eyes remind me of my Boa Imperator's markings. I am very impressed with the Super Black Head. Chris, you have an interesting and attractive female Dinker. If you make a super with her , you could call the morph "Cowboy Chris". Enjoyed this informative lesson and the history behind the morphs.

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

Good name! LOL

@workinglinek9

2 жыл бұрын

I

You've inspired me to start a KZread channel and also start breeding and selling ball pyhtons

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

Cool outro!

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I wonder if the red het axanthic would do good if you were to breed it to the red stripe...

Hi Chris, really great subject to talk about, thanks! I have a spider in my collection with a split scale near the vent, hope to prove out this one next year as a scaleless head... Do you think that each snake with this split scale is a scaleless head? Thanks a lot and greetings from France !

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

France, oh wow! Yes, I do believe that if they have a split scale they are most likely a scaleless head.

Can you do a video on Malum??? Thanks

My male has that same weird black line under both sides of his eyes but they lead into his tracking under his belly even I see some Het and maybe yellow belly he is a Normal maybe Clown because I bought him for around $100

How about arroyo ball python looking like a normal how can you determine the difference

I bought a normal ball python but I think it got another Gene's in it he or she is 175 gram's how can I send a pic or video to you

after watching this i’m now questioning if my normal is actually a gravel

@sunnimarlena836

Жыл бұрын

she looks exactly like the gravel picture i’m like 99% sure i got a steal on a gravel

I have a couple of normal snakes in my collection with the split vent scale. I don’t want to count my “chickens” before they hatch , how reliable is that marker? Should I get my hopes up?

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

I bet they are scaleless heads!

How can i add pic i was going to see if anyone can tell me what morph they are

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

You can upload it somewhere to maybe a website or google drive and post a link here.

I have several snakes in my collection that has "split" scales but not the very last one, but near the last one, do they carry the "SH" gene?

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure it only works if the very last scale is split.

I recently purchased a bag of ten baby normals from Africa and a few of them have the same markings along the mouth. A few are really dark orange almost like burnt orange. None of them look the same. Looking forward to proving them out.

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

That's awesome!

Hey I'm a little late to the party. I was given a BP marking looks like a normal. But beside a normal he definitely isn't. What you described as the HRA is what he looks like. He's brown on black and 98% clear dorsal. A few spots near head and a few spots and a stripe at tail. But cannot find nothing like him. His belly has tracking like a het pied? Or het something.

@Mystic-Mountain-Morphs

3 ай бұрын

Sounds interesting 🤔

@sephramey6489

3 ай бұрын

@@Mystic-Mountain-Morphs like to upload a pic, but this doesn't allow it.

My snake have the black lines on the jawline like that.

Nice

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Hey Chris i have a 100% het clown with same marks under eyes like that

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting!

Could u help me identify my two beautiful snakes

Off topic but I just got a ball python and I have carpet, and I just wanted to know if I should move her to a different room when I vacuum? Will the noise make her nervous??

@deadmanomegagaming4061

4 жыл бұрын

I would think it would vary from snake to snake but i would say yes as a general rule. (please note that i am far from an expert ans rake my advice with a small grain of salt)

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

You should be able to vacuum without moving the snake.

@amp-uspsashootingsports4336

3 жыл бұрын

My Stimson's freaked out when I vacuumed. The balls didn't seem to mind.

Bro I have a hidden gene woma lucifer fader granite male. I'm trying to invest in a good female for him. Which would you rather get into for him, a ghi or super pastel enchi?

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

Either would be good, GHI would be a dark morph, a Super Pastel Enchi sounds bright! I'd get both LOL

@deadmanomegagaming4061

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds fun, personally i would go GHI but thats just my personal preference.

@trustingod8332

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks man I appreciate the responds I think I am gonna get both

Forgot Russo looks like a bright normal too

I love that ivory ball python!

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

Me too!

No enchi?

are these co dominant genes regional? or spread throughout africa?

I'm a stay at home mom and I just got my first ball python. He is a Ghost 100% Het pied. I've worked with animals all my life and I'm just getting into this awesome reptile world. I'm wanting to make some extra money in the future and breed him. I've looked at all types of morphs but I just can't decide on what female to get. Any suggestions?

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

They sky is the limit! There are over 200 morphs to choose from. I'd probably go with a female that is het pied with other genes in the mix, maybe het ghost too.

@starseed_serpents5486

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I was thinking the same thing

How can I make sure she is a normal

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

Most normals are normal but you never really can be sure, they could be het for something...

Hey Chris I've got a 5 year old female that is supposed to be a het. What kind of male would I breed her to to find out what het she is.. the person was quite adamant that she was a het they just couldn't remember which.. another great video my friend

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

That's a tough one, I checked Morphmarket and there are 35 recessive genes. Trying to buy a visual of anything to hit that het would be nearly impossible. Probably the best way to do it is to keep several of the male offspring and breed it back to that female, you'll have a 50% chance of the males getting that gene, may take a few years to do it.

@charleyhendersonj.r.6297

4 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures okay Chris thank you very much I guess with her that's exactly what I will do thank you for checking up on something I could not know how to do

I bought a baby bag from outback reptiles and almost all of them have that line under each side of the head

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting!

So I’m probably going to get a little crap about this but I have to say something. So my very first clutch of the year my bumbleebee laid 6 great looking eggs one even has a clear window they looked had great tho great veins embryo on top they looked great I’ve been cooking them at 89.6 since May 15th I deciding to change the press and seal and candle the eggs again at 15 days old and they all looked great it seemed like there was growth going on the veins were thick and red I candled the one with the clear window and you could see a little baby snake already forming they seemed awesome tho and so I went to change the press and seal again yesterday about 5 days after the last candling and 2 of the eggs (1 of them being the clear window egg) were just really soft and mushy kind of deflated so I candled them and I didn’t see any veins anymore and there seemed to be solid spots forming on the bottom of the egg so I put those in a seperate box fast forward to today I candled the other 4 eggs that did have veins yesterday another 2 of them seemed soft mushy and veinless but the other 2 felt like normal all my other snake eggs you can see the vein and embryo still so out of a clutch of 6 I’m thinking 2 may survive and I hate to put this out there but I’m pretty sure it’s bc I paired a butter,champagne to a bumble bee which I know is said to be a lethal combo and a big no no but if you look it up this one guy produced a champagne bumblebee he sent it in to world of ball pythons he named it the atlas rafik reptiles produced it and so bc he produced one I thought maybe with butter and pastel in the mix I could make the combination work also but now here I sit feeling like a bad breeder and a fool I mean why else would they go 20 days and die I do know no I’ll never go down that road again it could’ve been worse I know I’ll probably get crap about this but whatever I’m human

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

It could be from the lethal combo, I've always been worried about candling eggs in the incubator because my LED light gets so hot and may heat up the egg if I candle a bit too long. I actually never candle snake eggs, if it's not a slug you know its fertile. My first few clutches dried out and died, it's all part of the learning process. There's many more years to come if you stick with it.

@josephvaughan7693

4 жыл бұрын

Chris Hardwick thanks Chris

I have a ball python that is highly questionable, it has alien head pattern, possible het because of the black line in front the vent, I'll send pictures if you need me too

Can you make a video on the Gypsy ball python

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

That's a tough one, only six have been listed on Morphmarket and some in combos, can't get a good feel on the potential of the gene. Lots of genes like that, just not popular enough for me to really get my head wrapped around it.

@reptilelifeline135

4 жыл бұрын

Chris Hardwick ok thanks though

Special??

🤘🍻🤘

Enchi is hard to tell from normals

This is an older video, a Freeway for $600? they are like $1200 today, BP pieces are crazy right now. When I first got into breeding Ball pythons I skipped on buying so many awesome snakes for killer prices I'm kicking myself now haha.

freeways have got to be pretty esay to reproduce if you think about it. buy an ivory, and breed it to a freeway. 50% freeway 50% ivory. or breed 2 freeways and get a super asfault and you breed that to an ivory. if ivories are so cheap then it is not that hard. In corn snakes the Ultra gene is pretty hard to track so most people just track it by breeding amels to ultramels since it is ellelic. now if you are looking for a ultra corn snake almost noone breed for them. it seems like all of the breeders are jsut happy with ultramel, but don't have interest in the ultra gene outside of that. Amel is such a common gene in corn snakes that unless your breed line comes from 2 wild caught parents you have a chance that the snake is het amel.

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

Sure, easy to produce a bunch of freeways but hard to add more genes into the mix.

My Het clowns have those smiley face strips...

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting!

Hey man im Zach I have 2 snakes if u wouldn't mind taking a look at the pic an let me no wat you think

Trick morph looks very normal too

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I missed that one too!

2:35 it’s normal for the line under the eye nothing special about that pattern

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

I'm thinking the same thing now LOL

@CallMe6

4 жыл бұрын

Chris Hardwick you took a look at your collection huh? Haha love your videos tho dude full of positive vibes and it’s amazing to see your clutches

So I recently got a female ball python, but the people I got her from got her from someone that bought her from a Petco, and she was labeled as a Fancy as they normally do. I don't know what she is, and my only guess is a Specter. But I have no clue if she's anything else? Could you maybe help me out? Here's a link to a post on Instagram with a few pictures of her: instagram.com/p/CC7OexHHCuF/?igshid=q79hoai5tvh

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting, I'm not sure on that one.

@joeydraws4559

4 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures weird. Guess I'll have to try and see how it goes once she's old enough to breed, then. Should be interesting lol

@Th3Tr0113r

2 жыл бұрын

Did you ever find out?? I'm trying to figure mine out almost identical to that one you posted of!

@joeydraws4559

2 жыл бұрын

@@Th3Tr0113r unfortunately, she's still only about 1000 grams so we're about a year off from breeding her to find out. But I do have a super stripe male to breed with her to prove out if she's at least specter

@Th3Tr0113r

2 жыл бұрын

@@joeydraws4559 well if for some reason it pops into your head about the random stranger who wanted to know how they ended up on KZread let me know if you are able to successfully get a clutch! Good luck with that by the way I bet they'll be pretty badass no matter how they prove!

Purchased a "normal" but the markings indicate it could be a Russo. Just a baby right now but can't wait to prove him out. Thinking of using a mojave female.

Amur ball python

Pied ball female breading with a normal..wild tipe male will get me what?

@mortipotimus246

3 жыл бұрын

If u don't know then don't breed lol

Het clown

@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures

4 жыл бұрын

👍😎