Chocolate Ball python
Co-dominant (incomplete dominant) morph
- Inheritance
- Co-dominant (incomplete dominant)
- Super form
- Super Chocolate
- Allelic with
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- Also called
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How Chocolate is inherited
Chocolate is co-dominant: one copy produces a visual Chocolate, and two copies produce the Super Chocolate. Breeding a Chocolate to a normal gives about 50% Chocolate babies.
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Breeding outcomes
Odds per egg. Try your own pairing in the genetics calculator.
Chocolate × Normal
- 50%Chocolate
- 50%Normal
Chocolate × Chocolate
- 50%Chocolate
- 25%Normal
- 25%Super Chocolate
Super Chocolate × Normal
- 100%Chocolate
Research mentioning Chocolate
- Oral, Cloacal, and Hemipenal Actinomycosis in Captive Ball Pythons (Python regius) .
Frontiers in veterinary science · 2021
Other ball python morphs
- Albino
- Asphalt
- Axanthic (Jolliff)
- Axanthic (TSK)
- Axanthic (VPI)
- Bamboo
- Banana
- Black Pastel
- Butter
- Calico
- Candy
- Caramel Albino
- Champagne
- Cinnamon
- Clown
- Desert Ghost
- Enchi
- Fader
- Fire
- Genetic Stripe
- GHI
- Gravel
- Het Red Axanthic
- Hidden Gene Woma
- Huffman
- Hypo
- Lavender Albino
- Leopard
- Lesser
- Mahogany
- Mojave
- Monsoon
- Mystic
- Orange Dream
- Pastel
- Phantom
- Piebald
- Pinstripe
- Russo
- Sable
- Specter
- Spider
- Spotnose
- Sunset
- Ultramel
- Vanilla
- Woma
- Yellow Belly
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