Gravel
Type: Incomplete Dominant
First Produced By: The Animal Company [1]
Complex: Super Stripe Complex
First Produced In: 2006
Availability: Common
Last Updated: 2022-12-14
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About
The Gravel Ball Python is both a color and pattern mutation that has similar characteristics as other genes in the superstripe complex so much that they can be difficult to differentiate from each other and often can be mistaken as a trait-less animal as adults.
History
The Animal Company first produced the Gravel Ball Python mutation with a yellowbelly cross producing highways in 2011, Shane Herbold - Shane’s serpents with a yellowbelly cross producing highways in 2011, Jason Vilenica - WickedFairyMagic with a red blush outcross producing gravels in 2008. The known founding animals of this gene were imported into the states in 2008 and were thought to be a darkened line of the already established yellowbelly.
Appearance
Head
The head of a Gravel Ball Python is very similar to that of a Normal Ball Python, though slightly darker tones fading to a light crown with a slight stamp near the neck, lip spots and connected ocular stripes. Though this is pretty consistent, it is not a rule as every outcross produces a new animal.
Body
The body of the Gravel Ball Python usually consists of gold outlined saddles with a tendency for high contrast between pattern and background. Often they have dorsal background blushing, pattern tends to fight for banding especially in the last third. Melanin speckling/shotblast granite is also typical in the lateral pattern. They often have flamed lateral gradient in between their pattern saddles, but typically not as prevalent as its cousin the Yellowbelly.
Belly
Gravel tend to have a granite transition from their scutes to lateral pattern defined by ‘checkering’ or ‘chips and chunks’. They often can have ventral birthmarks and tinted scutes.
Tail
The tail of the Gravel Ball Python is typically bright and similar to the accentuated lateral pattern with gold outlining on high expression animals.
Proven Lines
The Animal Company (The Gourmet Rodent line), Shane’s Serpents Line, WickedFairyMagic’s Line
Related Traits
Combos
- Highway (Gravel Yellow Belly)
Super Gravel by Slitheryin Reptiles
pastel gravel arroyo By Shaun Hacke at Dark Blizzard Exotics
pastel gravel arroyo By Shaun Hacke at Dark Blizzard Exotics
Highway (Gravel Yellowbelly By By Shaun Hacke at Dark Blizzard Exotics
Pavement (Asphalt Gravel) Ball Python by Frameshift Reptiles LLC
Highway Ball Python by Living Art Ball Python's
Highway Ball Python by Living Art Ball Python's
Highway Ball Python by Living Art Ball Python's
Highway Ball Python by Living Art Ball Python's
Pinstripe Gravel by Slitheryin Reptiles
Pinstripe Gravel by Slitheryin Reptiles
