Butter
Type: Incomplete Dominant
First Produced By: Reptile Industries
Complex: Complex: Blue Eyed Leucistic (BluEL)
First Produced In: 2001 [1]
Availability: Common
Last Updated: 2025-05-22
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About
The Butter ball python is a Incomplete-Dominant mutation that varies in appearance from one individual to another. Some express bright yellows and light browns, whereas others can show dark brown and cream colouration.
History
The Butter Ball came From Mark & Kim Bell and was one of the nicest ones I have seen. He will be used to cross into other mutations.
Butters were first proven genetic in 2001. However, it was several years until the super-butter, a blue-eyed-leucistic was produced. Genetically butters are considered a separate line of the same mutation as the lesser. (The main difference would be if the lesser line is carrying some gene linked to the platinum.) Both of the along with the Mojave, phantom, mocha, mystic, and het-Russo form what is loosely referred to as the blue-eyed-leucistic complex. Butters have bred into numerous designer-morphs as a way of of reducing melanin and increasing yellow coloration. [2]
Appearance
Proven Lines
Lesser
May 2025: RGI recently discovered that Lesser and Butter require two different genetic tests.
Combos
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