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Hey everyone, it's Summer from Kenova and today I'm going to show you our best black and white ball pythons.
Okay, so the first animal I'm going to show you is this beautiful leopard spot-nose black exanthic desert ghost. So this animal is absolutely stunning and I'm going to see if I can get it unwound a little bit. She's kind of wanting to ball up, true to the species name, but absolutely gorgeous. And black exanthic, also known as TSK exanthic. They were proven to be the same by shed testing. We have a good bit of this in our collection and we love working with it. And we love what Desert Ghost brings to the mix, of course, brightening it up, cleaning it up, giving it some awesome contrast. And then, of course, when you get that leopard spot nose pattern, it looks just incredible. There's actually another animal that we have that I'll show you some B-roll of. It's just the leopard version of this, and you might actually prefer that one. And I think Justin does, but he's locked up with a female right now, so I didn't want to get him out of the groove, so to speak. But I absolutely love this project. I think there's so much to be done with the Black Exanthic/TSK Exanthic and Desert Ghost, and I can't wait to see what we can put into it next to really take it to the next level.
Next up is one of our breeder males. This is a leopard blackhead Mojave Hypo Blackanthic. So, this boy is absolutely beautiful. And he's being a little wiggly and kind of hard to keep him in frame right now, but the leopard blackhead Mojave on its own has such a cool pattern with that striping and those really kind of pixelated little lines down the sides. And when you add the black axanthic to take out the color and then the hypo to take out all that melanin, you end up with this really incredible silver type snake. And it is just such a cool look. They have really cool silver eyes. Again, this is a project that I'm really excited about. It's been really cool to watch it develop and I think adding some more incomplete dominance into the mix and even desert ghost down the line is really just going to catapult it into the next dimension. And really love this animal. Love this kind of, in a way, less contrasted look, but still really, really nice. Really, really unique and super beautiful. So, had to have a spot on my list.
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Next up, we have a hypo vpie xanthic gstripe. So now we're moving into triple recessive territory. Before we had the hypo blackanthic and then the DG black axanthic, but this one is BPI exanthic. So different line and it's got hypo as well as gstripe. And we actually did not produce this animal. This was produced by Dragon Herp. So big shout out to them for getting this into our collection. We're really excited to be working with it. I think it's a super cool project and you can just imagine when you add in some of those incomplete dominance that have, um, you know, kind of a disruptive effect on the G-stripe pattern. How cool that could be. Once again, getting desert ghost in the mix, brightening everything up. Um, but it's such a cool platform to work off of. And again, like the last snake, because we have that hypo element, we're getting that really cool gray silver look. Nice and clean. I love this animal and just can't wait to work with it further.
Sticking with our triple recessive theme, we now have the hypo VPI exic pie bald. So, this is another animal that we actually purchased and want to make sure we shout out that breeder again. But, we are so excited to have this in our collection because again, we get these triple recessives and to me, they're kind of like a foundation point, right? Like there's obviously many, many years involved, but there's so many kind of ingredients, incomplete dominance that we can sprinkle into this to make it so much better in the future. And it already looks so amazing. Hypopides are really pretty in and of themselves. And then when you get that exantic in there again, you're getting that gray look, but now we're getting it splashed on that white background like paint splatter kind of. But it's going to be really exciting to get this mixed in with all those cool incomplete dominance that we can use to enhance the pattern and the contrast. And then also down the line, add other recessives and, you know, start going the quad recessive route where we have G-stripe, clown, DG all in some combination with these other recessives. So it's going to be a really exciting journey over the next few years and it's crazy to think how much you can do with this limited color palette. Even though, you know, we don't have all the crazy reds and oranges and browns and all of those nice earth tones that we normally get with ball pythons, we get this really cool urban color palette to work with, and I absolutely love it.
And last up, we have the VPI Examph Clown. So, this is obviously one of our favorite combos of all time. And I brought the table out because I wanted to show you. We happen to have a baby version as well as a subadult adult. Actually, this is an adult male. He's one of our breeders. Of course, this is one of our favorite combos of all time, like I said, just because of how amazing the pattern is, the contrast, and as you can see, it does age really, really well. And of course, this is another one where we're super excited to get some more ingredients into the mix here to put more into this combo. All those crazy clown genes that we normally like to put into our clowns to enhance the pattern and give more contrast and complexity. Spot nose, yellow belly, the list goes on and on. So, it'll be really awesome when we get those into this incredible black and white palette. Hopefully later this year, but definitely one of the best black and white ball pythons of all time. Still one of our favorites even though we've been making them for a couple of years now and just such a beautiful, beautiful snake.
Okay guys, that's it. So again, those were in no particular order. So you let me know in the comments below how you would rank them top to bottom, which one's your favorite. And we'll see you next time for another episode of Netflix.