This is one of my favorite snakes. He has a few characteristics that set him apart from a normal striped ball python. This male is an overall dark animal, with a broken stripe running down his back and irregular side patterns. His belly is sooty, similar to a hypermelanistic ball python. In addition to the large ringer spot, he has three more pure white spots on his belly.

I’m not crazy about the name “Striped Ringer”, but after all, he is an animal with a broken stripe and is a decent ringer, so the name just stuck. I do feel that this snake’s pattern will prove to be genetic so I guess I wait until I see his homozygous offspring to give this morph a name. I am not sure if his white ringer spots will be passed on with his funky pattern but time will tell.

I have produced “heterozygous” offspring from this male in previous years and hope to prove this morph in the near future. I think this morph will be amazing when crossed with albino, caramel albino, and hypomelanistic morphs.