Hypo Ball python
Recessive morph
- Inheritance
- Recessive
- Super form
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- Allelic with
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- Also called
- Ghost, Orange Ghost
How Hypo is inherited
Hypo is recessive: a ball python needs two copies to show it. Animals with one copy look normal but are "het Hypo" and pass the gene to about half their babies.
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Breeding outcomes
Odds per egg. Try your own pairing in the genetics calculator.
Hypo × Normal
- 100%Normal · het Hypo
Hypo × het Hypo
- 50%Hypo
- 50%Normal · het Hypo
het Hypo × het Hypo
- 75%Normal · 67% poss. het Hypo
- 25%Hypo
Hypo × Hypo
- 100%Hypo
Research mentioning Hypo
Other ball python morphs
- Albino
- Asphalt
- Axanthic (Jolliff)
- Axanthic (TSK)
- Axanthic (VPI)
- Bamboo
- Banana
- Black Pastel
- Butter
- Calico
- Candy
- Caramel Albino
- Champagne
- Chocolate
- Cinnamon
- Clown
- Desert Ghost
- Enchi
- Fader
- Fire
- Genetic Stripe
- GHI
- Gravel
- Het Red Axanthic
- Hidden Gene Woma
- Huffman
- 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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