Tak - Dinker Ball

This is Tak, my dinker ball python. He's around 250g and I'm just waiting till he gets some size on him so I can introduce him to the ladies.

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Bought him as a normal at a local pet store. Some have said he looks like a Black Pastel. I guess we will see.

looks good,

Very dinker worthy!! I was gonna say cinny/Blk Pastelish

Thanks! He's producing sperm plugs but he needs to get some size on him. He's eating one large mouse a week. I tried offering him a very small, small rat tonight but he was having none of it.

Great looking python! What makes this snake a dinker ball?

heres a picture of my black pastel. It dose look a little Blk Pastelish(nicks word)

A dinker ball is something you think might have a genetic color or pattern but it's not proven yet. If this guy produces some offspring that look like him, then he could be something genetic like a black pastel.

It will be like Christmas when the eggs hatch!
Thanks, Jesse.

A dinker is a normal snake you wanna "dink around" with in hope it proves to be something special.

Here's a dinker I am working with that is very similar but more black pastelish.
http://www.vaherps.com/t38-check-out-this-guys-head-spot?highlight=head+spot


Because of the head on yours being so light and the hue, it looks more cinnamon like. But who knows! I would breed it with a visual recessive so if it proves genetic, you will have hets of that "new" morph. Then I would cross him with a cinny or black pastel to see if it shares the same gene and produces a super

Good luck for sure!

Thanks, Nick for the additional information.

I was thinking of breeding him to a normal this season and maybe my pinstripe. I have no recessives to breed him to at the moment. I figure if I breed him to a pinstripe, any babies that carry his "dinker" gene will be darker and obvious. (much like the cinnamon or black pastel pinstripes)

He is very nice. Good Luck. He does look a little like our cinny but not quite as dark.

What shop did you get him from? Cool snake, does look kind of cinnamonish

I love it when "normals" wind up being anything but.

He looks great, has some gorgeous fading in him. He reminds me of a Cinny.

I got him from a local Petsmart I used to work for. If I'm not mistaken, Petsmart sells captive hatched babies, so he could be something. Or just a pretty normal. Either way, I love how he looks. He looks so much better in person.

His blushing and flames are getting brighter with each shed. When I got him as an 80g baby he had quite a lot of blushing and I knew he looked different from the other normals, but as he's growing its becoming more and more obvious. I'll snap a picture this weekend of him beside a few of my normals.

I can tell you that you need to get a female of any BEL complex to prove him out. I will bet $$ that he will make a white snake if you breed him to any of the BEL complex