Striped Diamond Python

[Thalia]

What's everyone's opinion?
Paired two diamonds and babies are hatching out with nearly complete dorsal stripes.
Thinking female possibly has coastal blood but it still doesn't explain a full stripe.
Awesome surprise!

 

[Herpetology]

what do both the parents look like

baby in egg definitely looks coastal, but if both parents look like the adult in your post, thatd be very strange!

 

[Ajar5]

Does mum have a stripe? Good to see pics of hatchys once out of egg and mum. As far as I know stripes are usually polygenic. Although some are inheritable like tigers, although their mode of inheritance is debatable they are generally considered co-dom. They originated from coastals I believe. Abnormal incubation conditions have been known to cause odd patterned offspring also.

 

[Thalia]

This is Mum

Dad

 

[Ajar5]

Nice diamonds. Mum may be an intergrade or just a northern specimen? How many hatchys have stripes? Could be the start of a cool project. Congrats!

 

[cement]

In my humble experience striping starts north of the Karuah river in the wild. To me this is the cut off point for where sth of here are diamonds and north are intergrades. In todays hobby there's no way of telling where or what you have unless you got your parents from a reputable breeder who has true knowledge of their ancestry. So I,d say that your parent snakes or one at least had at minimum intergrade heritage. That hatchling doesn't look full stripe, but partial like the dad.