Ball Python morph
Ball Python (Python regius)
Visual Desert Ghost. Lighter, cleaner appearance with enhanced yellows and banded pattern tendency. Brightens with age.
Produces a lighter, cleaner appearance with reduced dark pigment and enhanced yellows. Pattern tends toward banding with reduced lateral blotching. Animals brighten significantly with age. Some breeders report that het Desert Ghosts may show subtle visual influence, but this is not universally agreed upon.
How to identify it: Lighter overall appearance with enhanced yellows and reduced dark pigment. Banded pattern tendency. Brightens dramatically with age. Cleaner, less busy appearance than wild-type.
Desert Ghost follows a recessive inheritance pattern, carried on the Desert Ghost allele (locus DGhost).
Because Desert Ghost is recessive, an animal needs two copies of the allele to show the trait visually. An animal with a single copy is called het desert ghost (heterozygous). A het animal looks normal but carries the gene, so pairing two het desert ghost animals produces, on average, one in four visual desert ghost offspring.
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