Cinnamon Ball python

Co-dominant (incomplete dominant) morph

Inheritance
Co-dominant (incomplete dominant)
Super form
Super Cinnamon
Allelic with
Black Pastel
Also called
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How Cinnamon is inherited

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

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Cinnamon is allelic with Black Pastel: 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.

Commonly treated as allelic with Black Pastel.

Health notes

⚠️ Supers are prone to kinks and a "duckbill" head shape.

Breeding outcomes

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

Cinnamon × Normal

  • 50%Cinnamon
  • 50%Normal

Cinnamon × Cinnamon

  • 50%Cinnamon
  • 25%Normal
  • 25%Super Cinnamon

Super Cinnamon × Normal

  • 100%Cinnamon

Cinnamon × Black Pastel

  • 25%Black Pastel
  • 25%Black Pastel Cinnamon
  • 25%Cinnamon
  • 25%Normal
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