GENETIC INFORMATION:
Co-dominant
FIRST FOUNDED:
Snake Keepers 2003 (SK, Sutherlands)
DESCRIPTION:
One of the most questioned snakes, yellow bellies are not called yellow bellies because they have yellow bellies, they actually do not have yellow bellies. Yellow bellies are "normal" looking in apparence unless you know what you are looking for and then it is night and day. Yellow bellies tend to have a busier pattern, they typically have a small blushed dot in the center of their head. Their contracting colors are more vibrant then a "wild" ball python. Their underside is normally clear in the middle of their belly scales, good quality yellow bellies have a "checker board" pattern of black scales that follow the flanks of the snakes body from head to tail on either side of the belly. Sometimes specimens can have a yellow tint to the sides of the belly scales. The yellow belly is also refered to as a het for ivory. Most breeders use this term if the animal is a direct descendant from an Ivory as to ease the mind of buyers that they are purchasing a genetic line of yellow bellies. Yellow bellies are a visible carrier for the Ivory gene. Often importers will sell "yellow belly" type animals from africa, these animals have not been proven to produce ivories and sometimes that is where the confusion sets in.
OTHER NAMES:
Het Ivory
CURRENTLY KNOWN CROSSES:
Ivory, Yellow belly pastel, yellow belly spider, yellow belly super pastel, yellow belly bumble bee, yellow belly killer bee, yellow belly mojave, yellow belly calico, yellow belly black pastel, yellow belly cinnamon pastel, yellow belly lesser, yellow belly butter, yellow belly albino, yellow belly pinstripe, yellow belly ghost, yellow belly lemon blast, yellow belly genetic stripe, super stripe
Co-dominant
FIRST FOUNDED:
Snake Keepers 2003 (SK, Sutherlands)
DESCRIPTION:
One of the most questioned snakes, yellow bellies are not called yellow bellies because they have yellow bellies, they actually do not have yellow bellies. Yellow bellies are "normal" looking in apparence unless you know what you are looking for and then it is night and day. Yellow bellies tend to have a busier pattern, they typically have a small blushed dot in the center of their head. Their contracting colors are more vibrant then a "wild" ball python. Their underside is normally clear in the middle of their belly scales, good quality yellow bellies have a "checker board" pattern of black scales that follow the flanks of the snakes body from head to tail on either side of the belly. Sometimes specimens can have a yellow tint to the sides of the belly scales. The yellow belly is also refered to as a het for ivory. Most breeders use this term if the animal is a direct descendant from an Ivory as to ease the mind of buyers that they are purchasing a genetic line of yellow bellies. Yellow bellies are a visible carrier for the Ivory gene. Often importers will sell "yellow belly" type animals from africa, these animals have not been proven to produce ivories and sometimes that is where the confusion sets in.
OTHER NAMES:
Het Ivory
CURRENTLY KNOWN CROSSES:
Ivory, Yellow belly pastel, yellow belly spider, yellow belly super pastel, yellow belly bumble bee, yellow belly killer bee, yellow belly mojave, yellow belly calico, yellow belly black pastel, yellow belly cinnamon pastel, yellow belly lesser, yellow belly butter, yellow belly albino, yellow belly pinstripe, yellow belly ghost, yellow belly lemon blast, yellow belly genetic stripe, super stripe
CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
Sorry there are no animals available at this time, please check back in the summer of 2013