Ball Python morph
Ball Python (Python regius)
Visual Sunset. Intensified red/orange coloration that deepens with age.
Color mutation that produces intensified red and orange coloration. Visual Sunset animals display vivid warm tones that intensify with age. A highly sought-after recessive morph for color-focused breeding projects.
How to identify it: Intense red/orange coloration throughout the body. Colors deepen with age. Normal pattern shape but dramatically altered coloration.
Sunset follows a recessive inheritance pattern, carried on the Sunset allele (locus Sunset).
Because Sunset is recessive, an animal needs two copies of the allele to show the trait visually. An animal with a single copy is called het sunset (heterozygous). A het animal looks normal but carries the gene, so pairing two het sunset animals produces, on average, one in four visual sunset offspring.
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