Ball Python morph

Incomplete dominant

GHI (Gotta Have It)

Ball Python (Python regius)

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What GHI (Gotta Have It) looks like

Codominant; dark with golden highlights. Super GHI is very dark with rich gold

Darkens and intensifies coloration with a distinctive iridescent sheen. Heterozygous (GHI) produces a darker animal with deep golden-brown and black tones, often with an oily or iridescent quality to the scales. Homozygous (Super GHI) is extremely dark, near-solid black with intense iridescence. GHI is highly valued as a building-block gene in dark or melanistic combos.

How to identify it: GHI (het): darker overall coloration, deep golds and blacks, iridescent/oily sheen on scales, patternless belly. Super GHI: extremely dark, near-solid black with strong iridescence.

How GHI (Gotta Have It) is inherited

GHI (Gotta Have It) follows a incomplete dominant inheritance pattern, carried on the GHI (Gotta Have It) allele (locus GHI).

Combo morphs with GHI (Gotta Have It)

  • GHI Mojave

    GHI + Mojave combination.

Predict GHI (Gotta Have It) pairingsOpen the Ball Python genetics calculator.Identify a Ball Python morphUse the morph identifier to match photos to visually identifiable traits.

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