your pictures are fuzzy but in the close up it looks like you can kind of see a pupil, do a google for ball python eyes tons of photos come up with different color variation some look almost pure black some dont, they have variations...even if it was blind as long as it can eat act normal why would it matter, like another person commented there are people on here that have blind snakes that are thriving.
12-06-2013, 01:43 PM
Physician&Snakes
Re: Is this normal!!!!!
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Originally Posted by Phantomtip
She's normal. Venomous snakes have slitted pupils like a cats. Non venomous don't. It's one way to differentiate between them. For instance if you have 2 snakes 1 is a rattle snake the other is a gopher. They look exactly the same, but if you look at the pupils you can see one is slitted. Thats the rattler. Stay away from it. The other is rounded go have fun but don't yell at me if the little stinker bites lol. Baby rattle snakes and baby gopher snakes look the same. The button on the baby rattle snake isnt really big enough to see yet and the gopher snake will thrash its tail in leaves to make it sound like a rattle thats why I used them as a comparison.
Careful bud, I do not think I need to mention the name of this deadly beauty...
She's normal. Venomous snakes have slitted pupils like a cats. Non venomous don't. It's one way to differentiate between them. For instance if you have 2 snakes 1 is a rattle snake the other is a gopher. They look exactly the same, but if you look at the pupils you can see one is slitted. Thats the rattler. Stay away from it. The other is rounded go have fun but don't yell at me if the little stinker bites lol. Baby rattle snakes and baby gopher snakes look the same. The button on the baby rattle snake isnt really big enough to see yet and the gopher snake will thrash its tail in leaves to make it sound like a rattle thats why I used them as a comparison.
I may be wrong, but I know for a fact that in some animals there is a gene for whats called an "eclipsed" eye. I have a few geckos with eclipsed eyes, but the gene makes their iris pupil and sclera the same color. None of my animals with eclipsed eyes are blind, they all hunt by sight and are fat and happy. If anything, post a better picture and if it is indeed and eclipsed eye that could be something cool to prove out.
I think the white bit on the bottom is just light. The picture is taken without flash
Look at that second pic again... Very clearly see pupil there.
12-06-2013, 03:15 PM
Tpythons
Re: Is this normal!!!!!
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Originally Posted by T&C Exotics
Look at that second pic again... Very clearly see pupil there.
The second pic appears to be a reference to the actual shape. The first pic is the one the OP is asking about. I cant really see a pupil, but that being said, its a really really bad picture.
