Was Your first BP a Normal?

First I would like to know how many people started there collection with a Normal Ball Python. I would also like to see pictures of your first BP. When they were babies, adults, or a before and after. I think most people will agree that your first Ball is special!


Here is my first BP, Sasha!
http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/r...2-22210413.jpg

I have always loved snakes...Even when I was little when we would go camping I would be searching for frogs and snakes. I just recently got my first BP and I love her...Such awesome pets!! Yes she is a normal but I wouldnt want any other snake :) Now I have a 5 year old and she is the same way LOVES snakes !!

Just wondering, why the other morph choice as Albino?

My first BP a female normal, which I thought was a male at the time.

When we got her (girlfriend holding)

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/...nt/photo-2.jpg

And Zed as of about a month ago. (400 grams)

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/...d/IMG_0093.jpg

Yep, my first BP was a normal as well, Capona:

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i3...aponaroll2.jpg

Ours too! Here's Julius back in June. We got him Sept '10

http://i594.photobucket.com/albums/t..._2682194_n.jpg

daybreaker, thats a super nice normal:gj:

heres my first, also a normal
http://i972.photobucket.com/albums/a...0929111454.jpg

Yup, a normal for me.

Here she is when she was around 600 grams

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/1...astunning3.jpg

My first snake was a normal BP. We adopted Ella from our area's reptile rescue and we've never been sorry! This pic was taken the week after we brought her home at about 1000 grams +/-.
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/...ist/EllaMe.jpg

And this is her now at roughly 1900 grams.... ;)
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/...5-21-11005.jpg

Yep. A normal was my first bp (and first pet that was mine).

Haha. Had to take a picture of a picture. It was the only pic I could find. I'll have to dig around some more. This was probably 15, maybe more, years ago. At "show & tell" at school!
http://img.tapatalk.com/a6898c87-1c6a-fcf8.jpg

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Originally Posted by Taylordan4th

First I would like to know how many people started there collection with a Normal Ball Python. I would also like to see pictures of your first BP. When they were babies, adults, or a before and after. I think most people will agree that your first Ball is special!


Here is my first BP, Sasha!
http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/r...2-22210413.jpg

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Yes, my first was a "wild type" but she's anything but "normal".....:D

[she's really a crazy little head trip]

The only ones weirder than her are my male Pastel who thinks he's a lap dog and my male Spider who thinks he's one of "The Flying Wallendas" far less talented siblings.

[gravity has no meaning to him]

Here's a couple of more! I love this guy.

The day we brought him home

http://i594.photobucket.com/albums/t..._8296385_n.jpg

And not quite 1 year old, 2/24/10

http://i594.photobucket.com/albums/t..._7798981_n.jpg

my first BP was a normal as well, i didn't really even know that there were other morphs other than albino lol but hey cant beat the original right?:D

My first bp was also a normal (100% het clown).
http://img.tapatalk.com/5ea89e42-3253-abe7.jpg
http://img.tapatalk.com/5ea89e42-3273-ae54.jpg

Next bp will either be a het clown or visual clown, maybe a albino and back breed for albino clown
Barry

Yes!

Here she is, my first girl, Cu. Now almost 7 years old, and still my favorite of them all.
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/k...a/DSC03770.jpg

I got a "box o morphs" for my first BPs. I've kept various other wild type reptiles though before this.

Regards,

B

My first was a normal. Her name is Goliath (we didn't know she was a she and my son named her, lol.)

Here she is when we first brought her home in August 2011 at just over 300g (she was neglected).
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...7/img_5433.jpg

And this is her in December 2011 at nearly 900g.
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...h/IMG_5988.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...h/IMG_5992.jpg

Don't tell the others, but she's my favorite. :D

my first was a w.c "normal". in 94 that was all there was.

My first ball python was an orange ghost

I got 3 at once. It's the three I own. The two pieds and the one het pied. :3

My first BP is a male pastel; got him almost two weeks ago now. I think he is probably around 3 months old? 26"-28" approximately.

Hello Newman...
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k2...1/IMG_9740.jpg
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k2...1/IMG_9750.jpg

got my first bp a wild caught male(as i was told. I was like 10-12 at the time and had no idea how to sex a snake) been keeping them ever since

Sure was. I got my first Ball when I was 8 (1989) because it was the only big, bad python I could convince my mother she wouldn't be suffocated by while she slept. And back then, there weren't any morphs...that anybody knew of anyway. May have been like a $50,000 Albino somewhere but that was well beyond the means of my meager allowance and paper route wages.

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Yes!

Here she is, my first girl, Cu. Now almost 7 years old, and still my favorite of them all.
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/k...a/DSC03770.jpg

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sick picture

My first BP was a milksnake. :P:P

I ended up discovering ball pythons and their morphs through research (on this website, actually) and now I have 10 of them. ;] My first normal was number 8, I believe. I love snakes in general, so I plan on trying to branch into every kind. <3

My first BP was actually two at once :P My male mojave and female pastel. I love 'em both, and I may go through breeders in the future, but I'll always have those two. Getting them tattooed on my shoulders and arms as soon as I can afford it, lol, they were my first reptiles period!

My first was Edgar the bumblebee, a gift from my boyfriend. He got himself a female het albino at the same time and has since given her to me since I'm better about keeping up with the pet care. XD

no pic atm :( but my first and only BP so far is a pastel male :)

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Originally Posted by geeko

Just wondering, why the other morph choice as Albino?

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well, as a new BP owner, before i got on this awesome forum i only thought there was normal and albino BP.

Here is my little worm Julius, when I first got him! I picked him, even though he was blue...I just couldn't resist. Best decision I ever made :love:
http://i43.tinypic.com/vrg4kk.jpg

Here he is this past summer, discovering grass :aww:

http://i44.tinypic.com/iz1hf9.jpg

I love him to pieces :D He's about 900 grams now, probably close to pushing 1,000 grams at this point :)

My first was a pastel that i later traded for a nice normal red tail boa.

Yup, my Axel. :)
http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/v...X/DSCF1785.jpg
http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/v...X/DSCF1779.jpg
http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/v...X/DSCF1778.jpg
http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/v...X/DSCF1742.jpg
http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/v...X/DSCF1935.jpg

What can I say, I was always shoving a camera in his face. :oops: He'll always be really really special to me.

My first and only ball python currently is a female spider named Pandora

[IMG]http://i743.photobucket.com/albums/x...e/100_1244.jpg[/IMG]

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[IMG]http://i743.photobucket.com/albums/x...e/100_1244.jpg[/IMG]

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She's so pretty! Man, I wish I had a spider. :D

Morris K. Nibbles, ignoring a perfectly nice pewter female:

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-P...0/IMG_4727.JPG

He's actually a het pied. I knew I wanted a pied as soon as I got started, but they were running close to $2k in 2008. Even the het pied females were $500+. So I started with Mr. Nibbles here.

My first was a Mojave male that I later traded (and some cash) for an Albino female.

Here's the Mojave:

http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/x...kazoo/doki.jpg

And here's the Albino (recent pic):

http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/x...lanketland.jpg

Neat thread :). Makes me get all tearie-eyed thinking of my first BP (and first snake ever!), Draco. Got him in '99. But life got nuts and eventually he was re-homed with a co-worker. :tears:

(Really bad old pic)
http://i859.photobucket.com/albums/a...s/scan0010.jpg


Here he is with Cleo, our second BP.
http://i859.photobucket.com/albums/a...s/scan0009.jpg


Here is Norma Jean, our normal that started off our obsession again in '07/'08.
http://i859.photobucket.com/albums/a...ll-1-2-6-1.jpg

http://img.tapatalk.com/47e88798-0415-b4b5.jpg

This big girl was my first. Het albino still unproven ={

Mine is my 1 and only albino girl. Plan on getting many more and breeding later on but she will always be my favorite even with her scar from a tape mistake when I first got her that took a nice chunk out of her belly side a few inches below her head. I could never replace her and she means the world to me. I would post a Pic but there are plenty of her in my gallery.

My first was a normal. Here is her last year after I had her for a few months:
http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/...s/IMAG0723.jpg

And here she is from a few months ago:
http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/...s/IMG_1176.jpg

His name is lucifer he was the best and I absolutely loved him with every ounce of my heart
http://i1000.photobucket.com/albums/...er/2010038.jpg
http://i1000.photobucket.com/albums/...r/lucifer2.jpg
http://i1000.photobucket.com/albums/...er/2010059.jpg
http://i1000.photobucket.com/albums/...r/openwide.jpg

Unfortunately I don't have a pic but my first bp was a WC back in the late 80's.

Sent from my crappy cell using tapatalk.

Yep, mine was a normal!

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Yep, my first BP was a normal as well, Capona:

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i3...aponaroll2.jpg

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Is that a normal? How come no alien eyes??? Very pretty.

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Is that a normal? How come no alien eyes??? Very pretty.

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Reduced pattern correct me if im wrong

Yep my first was a normal. He was already a few years old:

http://img.tapatalk.com/4e90e6f6-dfcd-0580.jpg

Although my gfs first ball was a butter:

http://img.tapatalk.com/4e90e6f6-dffc-c9e4.jpg

http://img.tapatalk.com/4e90e6f6-e013-90fd.jpg

I got a mojo to start with. This is when I first got him- he's much bigger now. He's in shed or I'd add a current one too.
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/files/2/0/6/9/0/s1.jpg

My second was a pastel lessor She is also much bigger now and gets brighter with every shed.
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...9/0/maka_5.jpg

First was a sub adult wild caught purchased in 1993. I still have her today. She lays 12 eggs each time. I have decided to give her a break and not breed her this year

morphs are what set my attention to ball pythons for a minute in the first place

my bumblebee is my first and only ball

Why yes. Her name is Thunder and she will be 9 years old this April.. I still have her. I could never get rid of her no matter what.

She was glowing here..
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...s/IMG_7494.png

Not glowing here. She's rather dark.
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...s/IMG_4519.jpg

My first constrictor however, was a male albino burmese named Archon.