rescued mystery ball

Hey, i recently came into ownership of this male, im not sure what he is, here is a picture of him with my standard hatchling. I think i know what he is, id have to breed him to be sure, any opinions? :confused:


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Hi,

Moved this to the "is this a morph?" section for you.

We need good clear pictures of his whole body showing the pattern, his head showing the top of it and his belly pattern showing the sides meeting the belly.


dr del

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Some photos are with incandescent lighting and not the flash. I wanted to find some color swatches to compare him to but didnt have any handy, would that help? I have my opinions about what he is, but i dont want to reveal them yet and put everyone in the same mindset :-p

http://a1.l3-images.myspacecdn.com/i...1594cf09/l.jpg
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this is him with my pastel (upper right, going into shed, so prolly not helpful) against a white background
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Looks normal to me. Nice snakes.

Looks normal to me as well, pretty boy though:gj:

i was juggling between normal, and sulphur, maybe vanilla, but i have no idea cause ive never seen one in person. Ill probably breed him with my normal in a few years

You say you just came into ownership of him but you are taking pics of him with your other snakes....

I'm not a pro by any means and don't want this question to come off incorrectly, but did you complete any sort of quarantine at all?

oh, he is my most recent, ive had him for 3 months, but i just got my camera. I dont want this topic to turn into people chiding me, but i have 4 ball pythons. all of them are in a 40 gallon breeder and he is the biggest, the rest are the same size as my pastel. there are more hides than snakes in there, and ive kept them all separate for a month before i put any of them together and feed them separately.

That one came in with mites and i treated him, other than that all of my balls seem healthy and never pass up a meal

*facepalm*

Good luck with him. I you feel he's a dinker, you can breed him out to see if it throws anything.

No comments on anything else.

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Originally Posted by Broccolihead

oh, he is my most recent, ive had him for 3 months, but i just got my camera. I dont want this topic to turn into people chiding me, but i have 4 ball pythons. all of them are in a 40 gallon breeder and he is the biggest, the rest are the same size as my pastel. there are more hides than snakes in there, and ive kept them all separate for a month before i put any of them together and feed them separately.

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Look man, I'm not going to go off on a long rant about this because you seem to know that's not how you're supposed to do it, but either way that setup is just a BIG accident waiting to happen. I don't care how many hides you have in there or how you feed them, it's not appropriate for ball pythons. Something is bound to go wrong, mark my words.

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Originally Posted by Alexandra V

Look man, I'm not going to go off on a long rant about this because you seem to know that's not how you're supposed to do it, but either way that setup is just a BIG accident waiting to happen. I don't care how many hides you have in there or how you feed them, it's not appropriate for ball pythons. Something is bound to go wrong, mark my words.

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im planning on separating them soon, because there are two females and i dont want them breeding early. Im remodeling all of my cages right now and i essentially switched a leopard gecko harem from the 40 to the ball python cages to give them a break. before the mystery ball came to my ownership he was abandoned to the petshop i work for, we have a vet and everything.

the reason i thought he wasnt a standard is because he has yellow blushing on his sides and no black pigmentation, only brown. at first i considered him ghost but im pretty sure he isn't. i fully accept that he may be normal though, i like him alot.