Burmese Pythons

These large pythons are something I used to work with many year ago but have recently got back in to them as there are some new colour morphs available with the added excitement of matting these in to the Dwarf form which will make them far smaller and easier to keep than the full sized Burmese. In addition to Greens, Albino, granites and labyrinth morphs that have been around for some years we are now working with;

Hypomelanistic/leucistic - .this is probably the most exciting of all the new morphs. This is the first co-dominant Burmese colour trait discovered with a hypomelanistic lesser form(as seen in the photo opposite) and blue eyed leucistic supper form(also been called a Phantom as it has a light spidery patterning when young which disappears as they grow to give a true white snake with blue eyes).

Caramel – These look very similar to the hypomelanistic form bar perhaps being a bit more ‘pastel orangey’ .This is a recessive trait and there is no supper form. It is pretty in it’s own right and should combine well with the other colour morphs and the dwarfs so say there may be a stunning sunglow when combined with the albino etc.

Jaguar – This is an as yet unproven morph but the pair I have come from a litter containing several of these very different looking Burmese. Time will tell what the genetics of this prove out to be but I am very excited to be working with this morph. There may yet be a super form like the hypomelanistics?

Dwarf race – This is presumably an island form where the animals have evolved over time to be genetically that much smaller than the normal race of Burmese python we have all known for some years. These animals are considerably less bulky and have an overall small size such that males are 4-5ft and females about 6ft. In addition to the size difference they have a distinctively different patterning to the normal Burmese and in time may be even called a different subspecies but for now remain bivittatus. Their value to herping is their small size. If we can breed the existing traits and the new traits listed above in to the dwarf race we will have a much more desirable herping animal.