Butter Ball python

Co-dominant (incomplete dominant) morph

Inheritance
Co-dominant (incomplete dominant)
Super form
Super Butter
Allelic with
Lesser, Mojave, Mystic, Phantom, Russo
Also called
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How Butter is inherited

Butter is co-dominant: one copy produces a visual Butter, and two copies produce the Super Butter. Breeding a Butter to a normal gives about 50% Butter babies.

New to these terms? See the genetics glossary.

Butter is allelic with Lesser, Mojave, Mystic, Phantom, Russo: they sit at the same spot on the chromosome, so an animal can carry at most two of them, and pairing them produces combination morphs.

BEL complex.

Breeding outcomes

Odds per egg. Try your own pairing in the genetics calculator.

Butter × Normal

  • 50%Butter
  • 50%Normal

Butter × Butter

  • 50%Butter
  • 25%Normal
  • 25%Super Butter

Super Butter × Normal

  • 100%Butter

Butter × Lesser

  • 25%Butter
  • 25%Butter Lesser
  • 25%Lesser
  • 25%Normal

Butter × Mojave

  • 25%Butter
  • 25%Butter Mojave
  • 25%Mojave
  • 25%Normal

Butter × Mystic

  • 25%Butter
  • 25%Butter Mystic
  • 25%Mystic
  • 25%Normal
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