Pics of my collection!

After breeding for years and taking a ball-python hiatus, my collection is growing a bit again. My former snakes are all in my gallery, but here's the lineup of my current collection.

Albino male. 'Ortega.' He has a reduced pattern with no alien-eyes.

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/files/1/0/6/9/sn5.jpg

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Albino female; no name yet, but leaning towards 'Queenie.' I just picked her up last weekend from a local friend who specializes in sand boas (not-into ball pythons,) and had some BPs left to him by his deceased sibling. She's a big, blocky girl and I am in love. She may be het-pied,because the sibling's other project-snakes were a pied female and albino pied male; they were a bit out of my price-range; lol.

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/files/1/0/6/9/sn3.jpg

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/files/1/0/6/9/sn2.jpg

'Snot.' I got a banana male from a friend who could no longer keep him. I have my suspicions about him being a bumblebee banana. He is VERY active when he's outta his tub; i am lucky to have gotten this pic! He was rather on the small side (he just had that thin-hatchling look about him when i first got him; you know the look,) and has developed a great appetite and is growing well.

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/files/1/0/6/9/sn7.jpg

'Punkin.' Male piebald. He is a jumpy little guy; not so much aggressive, as easily-startled! He has the famous pumpkin face on his side; will get a pic of that sometime.

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/files/1/0/6/9/sn8.jpg

'Rocket.' Het pied female. She will be bred to the pied male eventually. I got them as a pair.

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/files/1/0/6/9/sn10.jpg

And my big normal female, 'Helen.; She was a rescue years ago, and was in BAD shape. Burns on belly, retained eyecaps and shed, and a few of those poor-fitting-hide spinal rubs. She recovered completely and is a powerhouse eater; she does startle easily a bit as well, but there's not a human-biting bone in her body. She's really blossomed. I am debating on who to breed her with, once my males are to-size. She's in shed in this photo. She is a little bit over-bulky because she had a double-feeding last week, as my stepkid's snake refused its meal and this girl is the garbage-disposal type. I am suspicious that she could be a cinny.

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/files/1/0/6/9/sn4.jpg

Thanks for looking! Also in household (not pictured) are my stepkid's spotnose pastel and normal (who had been another bad-shape rescue and who also turned out wonderfully.)

Beautiful snakes. I especially love the male albino. Really nice contrast going on there. The banana doesn’t look like a bumblebee to me but still gorgeous.

Nice looking collection!! :gj:

Much thanks! Yes; I am in agreement that he's solely Banana.

Any ideas on the albino female? Her alien-eyes are yellow (not white) and she has that darker/brighter yellow along her topline. I just can't find photos of 'normal' albinos without the white alien-eyes.

They are all very lovely animals , look extremely well taken care of with lots of love thank you so much for sharing and best wishes always..:gj:

I agree yours is just banana. I posted a pic of my banana Bumblebee girlhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...3787d61e88.jpg

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many thanks! That is a beauty there, Lost!

Any ideas on the big albino, though? (regarding the deeper yellow scales along her top line and the yellow alien eyes.)

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Any ideas on the big albino, though? (regarding the deeper yellow scales along her top line and the yellow alien eyes.)

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i'd guess Spider but i'm really not well versed in that morph. :)

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Any ideas on the big albino, though? (regarding the deeper yellow scales along her top line and the yellow alien eyes.)

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I dont have any suggestions, although I do politely disagree with tttaylor on any chance of being a spider. I dont think there is any chance the big albino is at all a spider. (Sorry to say I have no suggestions what it could be that wouldn't be throwing a dart blindfolded and spun around)

Albino is almost purely a color mutation as far as I know. You end up with a normal pattern (keep in mind normals have a good variety in their patterns as-is) with the white and yellow isntead of brown and black.

Spider is almost purely a pattern mutation. I have a single gene spider het for pied who looks like the picture below. He is a somewhat reduced pattern for a spider since he doesnt have as many dark lines down to his sides and few dots compared to others I have seen, but an albino would be yellow where he is brown and white where his black/dark brown is.
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I dont have any suggestions, although I do politely disagree with tttaylor on any chance of being a spider. I dont think there is any chance the big albino is at all a spider. (Sorry to say I have no suggestions what it could be that wouldn't be throwing a dart blindfolded and spun around)

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like i said, i'm not well-versed in the Spider gene. :)

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like i said, i'm not well-versed in the Spider gene. :)

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I wouldnt call myself well-versed. XD I just happen to have one. It's usually one of the more distinct patterns to ID. Though I have issues if you mix in pinstripe or enchi or lesser and telling exactly which is which.. I usually assume no spider and get it wrong if it's got another pattern changing gene on top of pinstripe..

But for something like albino and maybe one of the color changing morphs(?) spider should be pretty obvious.

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i'd guess Spider but i'm really not well versed in that morph. :)

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I dont have any suggestions, although I do politely disagree with tttaylor on any chance of being a spider.

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like i said, i'm not well-versed in the Spider gene. :)

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I wouldnt call myself well-versed. XD

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i didn't call you well-versed, i just said i was not. :)

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But for something like albino and maybe one of the color changing morphs(?) spider should be pretty obvious

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well it didn't seem obvious to me.¯\_(ツ)_/¯

my bad for the wrong guess.

EDIT: OP you have a beautiful collection!

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i didn't call you well-versed, i just said i was not. :)


well it didn't seem obvious to me.¯\_(ツ)_/¯

my bad for the wrong guess.

EDIT: OP you have a beautiful collection!

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I kinda feel dumb.. I'm posting between work so not paying a ton of attention to what exactly I had said before to notice my repetition, oops.

I kinda thought it was fairly easy to rule it out because spiders don't tend to have any alien head markings due to the way the striping ends up. Sometimes they have the dots, but they dont have the dark as boldly down the sides to enclose them. But definitely much harder if you haven't paid attention to it before specifically! Definitely not trying to call you out.


OP, whatever may or may not be mixed in with your big albino, she is one very pretty snake (as are the rest of your snakes!).

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I kinda feel dumb.. I'm posting between work so not paying a ton of attention to what exactly I had said before to notice my repetition, oops.

I kinda thought it was fairly easy to rule it out because spiders don't tend to have any alien head markings due to the way the striping ends up. Sometimes they have the dots, but they dont have the dark as boldly down the sides to enclose them. But definitely much harder if you haven't paid attention to it before specifically! Definitely not trying to call you out.

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i'm posting at work too, hence the way-off Spider guess hahaha. looking at the pics there's no way there's Spider in there.

no worries, P2BN. :) <3

Yea; I have seen spider-albinos, and she doesn’t really resemble that. Maybe a pastel or hypo albino. It’ll be tough to choose who to breed her with; either albino male or banana male. Got some time to think!