Codominant Genes
What is a Codom?
Codominant genes are able to appear individually or layered together on a snake to make brilliant pattern combinations. In ball pythons there are literally thousands of different possibilities!
We have many beautiful colors and patterns that we are working in to our recessive projects. The cool thing about codominant genes is only one parent has to carry the gene to pass it on, where recessive both parents must carry the gene. If you cannot visually see a codominant gene, the snake does not "carry" it like a recessive morph can.
Heterozygous or "het" for short means they carry a recessive and it takes 2 hets to make a visual. Or a visual recessive bred to a het of the same morph.
Pictured on this page is our codominant morphs, and some may be "het" for other things.
Ariel
Ariel may look like "just a normal " but she is incredibly special to us as an individual.
Ariel is Tony's first ball python that Londyn named before we even met. She is a big girl now and been in the collection the longest besides Jazmine my Redtail Boa.
Yes she is a wild type, normal, classic ball python