Python Passion

The cinnamon pastel ball python was first proven dominant in 2002 by both Greg Graziani and Gulf Coast Reptiles.  In 2005, this morph was proven incomplete dominant (also known as co-dominant in the ball python community), as there was a "super" form of the animal produced.

The cinnamon pastel has shades of brown, tan, and white coloring. However, the gold stripe running through the eye appears as a silver color in the cinnamon pastel, and the belly is a completely unmarked white.  The head is a very dark chocolate color and unmarked.  Initially, the cinnamon pastel and the black pastel were considered to be the same morph; however, further selective breeding has determined that this is not the case.  When bred into pastel jungles (also known simply as "pastels"), these two very different lines were evident.

The super cinnamon pastel is a solid brown/black patternless snake, with white/silver-looking "lips" and a clear unmarked belly.

We have a female cinnamon pastel (and she is also a "ringer," which is an unproven trait at the current time, that results in a white and/or discolored area somewhere on the snake, usually near the tail, similar in appearance to a very low-white piebald, but genetically very different; please visit this link for further information) in our collection.  She hatched in late 2009 and is not currently at breeding size.  We still have not figured out what projects to work her into at the present time, but we are speculating now about trying to eventually produce an albino cinnamon.