Ultramel Ball python

Recessive morph

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

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

New to these terms? See the genetics glossary.

Ultramel is allelic with Albino, Candy: 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.

Reported allelic to Albino.

Breeding outcomes

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

Ultramel × Normal

  • 100%Normal · het Ultramel

Ultramel × het Ultramel

  • 50%Normal · het Ultramel
  • 50%Ultramel

het Ultramel × het Ultramel

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

Ultramel × Ultramel

  • 100%Ultramel

Ultramel × Albino

  • 100%Albino Ultramel

Ultramel × Candy

  • 100%Candy Ultramel
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