The superball (blood python X ball python)

[benwallage9]

So I saw this thing called a superball which is a blood python bred to a ball python. I saw them on roussis reptiles and also on snakebytes tv. they look like this

http://roussisreptiles.com/images/pics/superball/4L.jpg

I was just wondering what people thought of these, honest opinion please. I know some people are way against it, and some think they are kind of cool. So let me know

[Vypyrz]

I don't agree with breeding hybrids.

[decensored]

I think they're cool - I know a lot of people are against it for whatever reason but I think they're wicked awesome. I want an angry ball. The super balls are cool too - i especially like that one in the picture, awesome creatures hybrids are.

[mues155]

I think theyre pretty cool looking.
But the point of breeding them i dont see a need.
It would benfit neither species, and you couldnt use the hybrid for anything but a neat looking pet.

[purplemuffin]

I'm on the fence with hybrids. Some of them look great, but the way people go about making them is sometimes awful. I don't want to see clutch after clutch of dead babies before a new snake successfully appears, that's not cool. I also don't want to see snakes that look so similar they can be easily confused for the regular population, because you don't want to dirty up the bloodlines.

If the snakes are healthy, they are properly identified, and people are responsible with them, I think some of them are quite beautiful. But when people start stepping out of line it gets iffy.

I actually have seen some hybrids happen in the wild. It's rare, but it happens. Of course you aren't going to naturally find a green tree python that mates with a carpet python in the wild, but you aren't going to naturally find a coral glow desert super pastel either. As long as there is no damage to the animal and it lives fine and healthy, cool... Honestly I've seen albinos of some species that do worse than some hybrids but I don't have a problem with them if they are maintained properly. (certain albino lizards requiring uvb have a habit of going blind. Albino iguanas even have a much higher chance of it)


I personally wouldn't want to produce them or anything! As a pet, it would be interesting.

[Munizfire]

Meh. Thats all I have to say...






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[thomasK]

I think the superball looks totally awesome.
But I wouldn't consider it as a pet or as a breeding project by the reasons mentioned above by purplemuffin.

[tsy72001]

I say no bloods are mean from what I have read. Why dirty the ball name by making it mean?

[Foschi Exotic Serpents]

Why dirty the bloods name just by something you've read?

Not all bloods are mean. Bloods are amazing creatures. Ive had mean ball pythons. Ball pythons don't eat and are boring as hell.

Besides. The superball started out as a Borneo x ball. Not blood. But hey.

[DC Reptiles]

I think some of the hybrids out there are pretty neat looking, but for me it just seems like it will cause more issues then help. Like when someone breeds this hybrid to a full blood and sells the babies as a full blood when it contains hybrid genes in it.