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Welcome to tropifauna.co.uk - the
website of Tropifauna Farms
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Ball Pythons
Ball Pythons (Python regius)
We have a good collection of Ball Python morphs and
anticipate producing the following plus a whole bundle of Hets and double hets. This is a small example of some on the base snakes we are working from. The list of combo's goes on. We will update this page regular with some resultant offspring pics.!
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Piebalds were the Ball Python that started the whole
investment morph thing off back in 1997! The great thing about Piebalds is
that no two are the same. We have gone to great lengths select our adult
stock and they consist of High White individuals. The Piebald trait is simple
recessive.

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Albino Ball Pythons are still amongst the most sought after
of morphs. They still represent a good investment snake, due to their
reproductive nature. Our specimens are all of the High Yellow variety.
Albino's are the product of a simple recessive trait. Possible combo's
include; Albino Spiders, Albino Pied's, Albino Axanthic's (Snow), Albino
Pastel's, etc....

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In 2003, Lars Brandell of Sweden, produced his first Super
Enchi Pastel Jungle Balls, as a result of mating his Enchi Pastels together.
Super's differ from Enchi's in many ways; dark fields decreased approximately
50%, eyes are lighter as is the tongue. Also the head markings are different.
The coloration on Super's is more intense than on straight Enchi's. As
with Enchi's, Super's are completely different to other Pastel and Super Pastel
lines. As a co-dominant trait, the possible future for new designer morphs is
huge. Singerbee's just the start?!

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Enchi Pastel Jungle Balls are incomparable to other Pastel
Jungles. Their colouration and markings are outstanding and are already
producing a new wave of designer morphs. The Enchi is a co-dominant
genetic trait founded by Lars Brandell of Sweden 2002. They get just more and
more beautiful as they grow, from warm orange to bright yellow, pale yellow to
green. Possible combo's include Stinger Bee's (Spider x Enchi), and Super Enchi
Jungle Pastels.

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The Spider has minimal pattern, with white & yellow/orange
side scales, and a curious black moustache. These Balls are not like any other
in their personality, they are very curious and outgoing. This dominant
mutation offers a huge combination of possibilities, including Bumble Bees
(Spider x Pastel) and Killer Bees (Spider x Super Pastel), plus a whole host of
undiscovered gems. We are currently working with the Enchi (for Stinger Bee) and Super Enchi to
Spider matings.

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Mojave's are co-cominant morphs, with oval laterals, creamy yellow in colour. Supers of this morph are Blue Eyed Leucistics! There are a huge range of combo available from this morph, including Pastel Mojave, Mojave Spiders, Crystal Balls, and Mojave Ghosts, to name but a few. We also keep Extreme Mojave's.....see below!

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| Orange Ghost Ball Pythons |
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We have several forms of Ghost or Hypomelanistic Ball. Ghosts are a simple recessive trait. Breeding with Ghost projects tends to bring out the yellow and orange in designer morphs. There are many combos!

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We have several forms of Ghost or Hypomelanistic Ball. Ghosts are a simple recessive trait. Breeding with Ghost projects tends to bring out the yellow and orange in designer morphs. There are many combos! This is the Green form. Unfortunately the picture does not bring out the green frosting!

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| NERD Lemon Pastel Ball Pythons |
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Being a co-dom trait, they are a useful base ingredient morph for many designers. Although the colouration in Lemon Pastels can be subtle, they do provide great enhancements in colour when bred with other morphs. As a co-dom they can also produce Super Lemon Pastels. We will be attempting breeding to Spiders this season, to get Bumble Bees, and many more combos.

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Pinstripes are a dominant mutation. They are one of the most striking patterned morphs around. The pattern is very thread like, extending laterally and down the sides. The Pinstripe is the key ingredient to many stunning designer morphs, as well as being superb in their own right. We have several Pinstripes that we are growing on to set up Pinstripe, Spinner and Spinner Blast projects.

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Bumble Bee'a are the result of Spider x Pastel matings. We are aiming for more of these stunners this season.

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Woma Ball's or Woma Tiger Balls, on first glance can look like irridescent Spiders. But, when crossed into other morphs, the real potential of Woma Ball show. For example, the Woma Lesser or the Soul Sucker. Both stunning animals with an ´out of this world´ purple coloration and a striped pattern. Woma Ball's carry a hidden gene that can dramatically effect the outcome of many designer morphs.

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| Lesser Platty Ball Pythons |
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Lesser Platty's are a co-dom mutation. Lesser's were originated from the breeding of the original Platty ("Platty Daddy") to a normal. Possibilities exist for Blue Eyed Leucistics, as this is the Super form of breeding two Lesser's together.

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| Tiger Pastel Ball Pythons |
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Not to be confused with the Woma Tiger Ball, this morph is apparently recessive.

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| Silver Streak Ball Pythons |
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The Silversteak is the result of a Pastel to Pewter. Ours was one of the resultant offspring from a Super Lemon Pastel to a Black Pewter. We are growing on for future projects, as you can imagine they have much potential.

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Being a co-dom trait, they are a useful base ingredient morph for many designers. Although the colouration in Pastels can be subtle, they do provide great enhancements in colour when bred with other morphs. As a co-dom they can also produce Super Pastels. We will be attempting breeding to Spiders this season, to get Bumble Bees, and many more combos.

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Ringer's look like low white Pied's on first glance. They are dom or co-dom within certain lineage. Much mystery still remains on the genetics of Ringer's.
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For our Snow Ball project we are using double het x double
het matings. This will give us a 1 in 16 chance of producing a Snow.
You get the picture that Snow Balls are a little on the uncommon side!
There are three lines of Snow; Jolliff, The Snake Keeper (TSK) and VPI.
Our line is VPI. It is generally accepted that the VPI line produces the
least pattern and is thus the very best Snow project. Snow's carry both
axanthic and albino genes. The albino neutralises the dark colouration,
and the axanthic knocks off the yellow that is left, hence you have a white
snake.
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