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    Re: Het Albinos aggressive?

    My het albino (06 male) is my one of my tamest in my collection. He's from Ian G. if that helps any, perhaps this tempermental thing could just be from certain lines..

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    Re: Het Albinos aggressive?

    Years ago a friend had some sort of big Asian rat snake that was a terror. On cleaning day he would open the cage and the thing would fly out and chase him.

    But I do think there was a fair amount of intentional breeding of aggressive genetics into morph ball python lines early on. I remember when the only ball pythons you saw where imported adults and they where considered very difficult to get feeding. Ball pythons had a terrible reputation as a difficult and not worth messing with species. Then along came the first few morphs and suddenly there was some interest in breeding them but everyone was looking for a way to make them eat like a burm. The idea that aggressive balls ate better was pretty common.

    At any rate, I'm sure there are aggressive genetics separate from morph genes so if you want you should be able to find morphs with more typical ball python temperaments. It might be possible to change a ball's personality one way or the other but my experience has been that it's more nature than nurture as I've seen aggression passed down as many as three generations.

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