Derma Ball

Anyone ever keep up with the Derma Ball? I haven't heard anything about it in years. Anyone know if it survived? Ever been bred? Just curious...

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7. If you were to upgrade your collection, which morph would add that you do not already have in your collection? (Allan Riis)
OK, if I’m dreaming, then I will take a scaleless ball python. There was one several years ago called the Derma Ball and the guy that had it let it die. It is such a great responsibility when you have the only gene in existence and it is a shame that he didn’t send it to someone who would not let that happen. Scaleless Ball Python would be a complete game changer and whoever gets one first just hit the lottery. We know it is genetic. It is only a matter of time before one pops up. Then the bidding war will begin. I already have most of the other genes that I want. In fact, I really can’t think of a single one that I still want and don’t have. This will be a big year for us Banana/Coral Glow wise so I think a lot of people reading this will have an opportunity to add that mutation to their collection. A purple and orange co-dom ball python, it doesn’t get much better. Except for maybe the Atomic.

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From an interview with Mike Willbanks

Although it's a pity; I just looked it up, and it's a total cutie. I hope another does pop up.

EDIT: upon further examination, I'd like to inquire on if this might actually be a defect rather than morph. It doesn't have heat pits- might that seriously affect it? Trying to find out how it died

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Originally Posted by DestinyLynette

Although it's a pity; I just looked it up, and it's a total cutie. I hope another does pop up.

EDIT: upon further examination, I'd like to inquire on if this might actually be a defect rather than morph. It doesn't have heat pits- might that seriously affect it? Trying to find out how it died

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Thanks for that info. There was always so much drama and rumors about that snake it was hard to tell what was really going on. I wonder how it died. I heard it was bred and they got hets. Wonder if anyone is still trying...

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Originally Posted by DestinyLynette

Although it's a pity; I just looked it up, and it's a total cutie. I hope another does pop up.

EDIT: upon further examination, I'd like to inquire on if this might actually be a defect rather than morph. It doesn't have heat pits- might that seriously affect it? Trying to find out how it died

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I've read blurbs that said it hatched without heat pits, and then blurbs that said it had heat pits, they were just hard to see. I saw a pic of it eating...not sure if it was an assist or if it fed on it's own. Wierd stuff...

I saw pics of it eating rat pups. It ate okay. I did some searching on the forum and pulled up this thread:
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...r-if-you-dare!

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I know that Eugene Bissett had a female (I can't recalled what he called his, not derma though - but same thing) and she died this past fall. He talked about her on Reptile Radio a few times, and he did say that her skin tore easily when feeding so he had to be careful of prey size, and had to feed her pre-killed.

I believe I remember the original owner of the male derma did breed him and produced a clutch (or more) of normal appearing babies and was at one point offering them for sale as het derma. My memory isn't what it used to be, so I may have my facts a bit off, but that's what I recall from a year or two ago.

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Again not sure how either Eugene's or the original male died, but I'm very interested to know- or if anyone ever tried to breed those hets together.

A guy named Justin savkov had the derma ball. He is a complete scammer and ripped me off $600! One day I will punch him in the mouth!

https://m.facebook.com/BHBReptiles/p...00000216821527


BHB is going for the super

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Originally Posted by DestinyLynette

Although it's a pity; I just looked it up, and it's a total cutie. I hope another does pop up.

EDIT: upon further examination, I'd like to inquire on if this might actually be a defect rather than morph. It doesn't have heat pits- might that seriously affect it? Trying to find out how it died

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I was just looking at a picture of this derma ball, I think the scales on its face make the pits the heat sensing may still be there it just doesn't have pits. I maybe wrong about this though

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If a scaleless corn can survive why can't a scaleless ball survive

theres a thread on here a while back i was reading .. and i think it was having issues with eating if im not mistaken .. but i checked that out to on bhb .. the other derma i seen was missing a lot of scales this one just has some missing off the head i wanna see what hes breeding it to