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| Jayde |
Posted - 17/12/2011 : 10:31:05
Just wondering if anyone on the site either has one (with intention of breeding) or if anyone has seen them in their local exotics or at any of the shows? If so, any idea on price, or suspected price?
I've never come across them in person or searches so really wouldn't know where to set the mark at!
I've only asked my local food shop so far, who sadly have said they've never seen them on their stock lists  so I will broaden my search in the new year, but it's always good to ask here too  |
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| Jayde |
Posted - 10/05/2012 : 12:46:35
I watched a constrictors limited video on WOBP the other week and it was about his first clutch from a banana, as he was going on about how he'd invested in some a few years back. I can't remember much (apart from thinking how jealous i was and that i wanted one!) as I was still dosed up from my hospital trip. I'm almost positive he said he'd bought males, but maybe try and search it out and see if he mentions anything about it on the video. |
| reptilemadd |
Posted - 10/05/2012 : 10:25:28
I can't shed any light on it I'm afraid but yep it's true that's why they are still high (price wise) and will probably stay that way for quite a while.. |
| jonoandapril |
Posted - 10/05/2012 : 09:57:04
resurecting an old thread here, but had a chat with a local breeder and he reckons banana royals are turning out to be a bit of an epic! apparently the males are mega expensive due to them just not being very produceable? he reckoned something like 95% of bananas were female due to some genetic thing stopping them being male?? i was confused as hell... anyone shed any light on this? |
| n/a |
Posted - 20/12/2011 : 11:56:26
Lol! Couldn't resist!  |
| reptilemadd |
Posted - 20/12/2011 : 09:39:54
LMAO so you should be go stand in the corner for an hour  |
| n/a |
Posted - 19/12/2011 : 18:56:50
Looks like bananas don't grow on trees ...
 Sorry ...!! |
| reptilemadd |
Posted - 19/12/2011 : 17:40:46
Me too cause if one of those beauties was caught in the wild I think you'd have to be a secret millionaire to afford it, I'm thinking it might have been a surprise hatchling from a coral glow or caramel or something along those lines.... |
| Kelfezond |
Posted - 19/12/2011 : 14:04:55
Same, I'm still not 100% convinced that it's not a combo :P |
| reptilemadd |
Posted - 19/12/2011 : 14:01:36
Lmao that goes without saying Kelf I must admit I didn't know that the banana "just came into being" as such I did think it was a combo meal lol |
| Kelfezond |
Posted - 19/12/2011 : 10:53:52
Although for the record there are a load of genetics videos already out there :)
None feature a beard as epic as mine though of course. |
| Kelfezond |
Posted - 19/12/2011 : 10:53:22
It'll be on here in my video section, unfortunately feeding day has interupted my schedule so I'll probably be making it tuesday or wednesday now :) |
| jonoandapril |
Posted - 19/12/2011 : 10:52:32
a genetics vid? sounds good. putting it on here or do i need to search youtube?? |
| Jayde |
Posted - 18/12/2011 : 22:01:52
For me it's when you start getting into the double recessive stuff.. that's when I become abit confused. |
| Kelfezond |
Posted - 18/12/2011 : 21:25:04
You will soon as I'm making a genetics video tuesday :D |
| jonoandapril |
Posted - 18/12/2011 : 20:18:06
pffft... il never understand the gene thing :( |
| Jayde |
Posted - 18/12/2011 : 18:10:15
This is what I thought when first looking into it, seems like theres abit of confusion in all the information ... quite a conundrum!!
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| Kelfezond |
Posted - 18/12/2011 : 17:44:08
I might make a fool out of myself here but as it says that the banana ball is a co dominant morph (and a basic morph) and as it has been paired with tons of other morphs with reletive ease I would assume that you cannot "Make" a banana ball any more than you could make a pastel or a spider? |
| reptilemadd |
Posted - 18/12/2011 : 17:31:42
Can't help on what makes a banana sorry but as far as my breeding plans I'm building up to a super pastel clown can't wait lol although the next four to six years will seem a lot longer |
| Jayde |
Posted - 18/12/2011 : 16:33:35
I've no idea how on earth I'd breed one!! It's a basic co-dom gene. According to The Complete Ball Python by Kevin McCurley, it's listed as another name for a coral glow, along with the name whitesmoke?? (which I'v never heard of), produced by NERD in 2002 & the genes are dominant / possible co-dom.
On World of Ball pythons, the coral glow information is the same as the book, with the only other aka as Whitesmoke
& has no super form.
But for Banana Ball it's information is listed as co-dom, produced by Will Slough in 2003, not other aka,& does have a super.
I must admit that as juveniles, it's pretty hard to tell the difference between a Banana & coral glow (going by world of ball pythons photo's) the only difference I can see is that coral glows seems to speckle, where as the banana near as damn it doesn't (it has maybe 5 dots in comparison to a coral)
Conflicting information.. I'm not sure which to go by!! |
| jonoandapril |
Posted - 18/12/2011 : 10:31:34
you could always try breeding on yourself? no idea what genes are in the banana royal tho, and i bet buying in the morphs to breed one would be flippin expensive aswell... im glad iv only got my eye set on lower end morphs atm or id be done for! |
