Candy Ball python

Recessive morph

Inheritance
Recessive
Super form
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Allelic with
Albino, Ultramel
Also called
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How Candy is inherited

Candy is recessive: a ball python needs two copies to show it. Animals with one copy look normal but are "het Candy" and pass the gene to about half their babies.

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Candy is allelic with Albino, Ultramel: 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.

Allelic to Albino; Candy x Albino gives "Candino".

Breeding outcomes

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

Candy × Normal

  • 100%Normal · het Candy

Candy × het Candy

  • 50%Candy
  • 50%Normal · het Candy

het Candy × het Candy

  • 75%Normal · 67% poss. het Candy
  • 25%Candy

Candy × Candy

  • 100%Candy

Candy × Albino

  • 100%Albino Candy

Candy × Ultramel

  • 100%Candy Ultramel
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