Morph: Coffee
Status: Unproven
When: ?
By Whom: The Snake Keeper and some
other breeders are working with this mutation,
I believe the Snake Keeper to be the closest
to seeing any results.
The
coffee ball python was one of the unusual
ball python shown in the Ball Python Manual.
The name coffee was given to this snake
to describe the color of the brown on the
sides. The coffee ball python is truly a
beautiful ball python to look at. With its
vibrant thin gold stripe and dark coffee
colored sides that are occasionally broken
with an unusual pattern it is really an
eye catcher. This is a project that we have
been working on for several years. We are
really hoping that she will prove out to
be genetic. Her clutch of eggs is the last
to hatch this season on 11/4/2003. We are
anxiously awaiting their hatching. Two previous
clutches from heterozygous coffee to heterozygous
coffee hatched earlier this year with no
coffee ball pythons in the clutch. Needless
to say we were disappointed. Hopefully this
last clutch will produce some coffee ball
pythons. This is part of the risk and the
disappointment with ball pythons. Often
times a morph has all the looks of being
something that will prove out to be genetic,
but after repeated breeding trails, it does
not. Hopefully the coffee ball python will
not fall into that category.
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by The Snake Keeper
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