Our Newest Acquisition 2007, The Desert Ball!!!

The Desert is a relatively new morph of Ball Python that presently has two lines. Both Stan Chiras and Peter Kahl have proven them and are presently working with them.  This is the history of them as told to me by Stan.

Around 2001 Stan Chiras purchased his original Desert male as a yearling import. At the time of purchase it was assumed to be a Desert Ghost. When imported it was about 350 grams but grew quickly and bred the following year. It was bred to a Normal Female and the offspring were expected to be Normal looking Het Desert Ghost. Much to his surprise two of the babies looked just like the Father. Around this same time Peter Kahl imported a like animal that he also thought was a Desert Ghost. His Desert did the same thing as Stan’s. Stan and Peter compared their animals and determined that they were the same thing. Instead of being a Simple Recessive trait it appears to be Co-Dom. That should be proven this year, as both Stan and Peter will be breeding Desert-to-Desert trying to produce a Super. Hopefully it will not be a White Snake. LOL

I was able to see this incredible new morph at the Daytona show this year. Both Peter and Stan had them available and both of them had a few crosses (I will show some pictures of the crosses a little further down the page), with them. Stan had a slightly better selection of then so I ended up purchasing one from him. She was the very nicest Female he had. Here are some pictures I took of her the first day she arrived.

I love the way she looks so regal in this one.

Here she is doing the rolling snake pose.

Here she is as pretzel girl.

There is no head shot in this one but it is a great one of her pattern.

Here is one more with a little belly shot for good measure.

Here are some pictures of the Combo's that have been produced so far.

The first one is of a Desert/Spider.

This one is of a Desert/Pastel.

This last one is of a Desert/Enchi (Tiger Ball).
(The photo above is of a Peter Kahl animal courtesy of Exotics By Nature)

All in all I am very excited by this project and look forward to seeing the many combo's that are produced from it.

I hope you enjoy the pictures,
Albey

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