ball python versus burmise python

[diamond1]

ok now i really need to know how you can tell the differance from a ball and a burmise.because i think the python that my husbad got yesterday is a burmise!and i cant have one right now because of my 8 year old son.so somebody please help me tell the diff.

[Python-77]

This is a burm


this is a ball python


Hope this helps

[diamond1]

well my snake (my husbands snake..lol) has a big head hey hang on ill try to take a pic of her and put it on here.

[Swizzle]

Definatly a ball... no worries about your son

[diamond1]

Definatly a ball... no worries about your son

but she acts weird not like our other balls.my husband said she acts like shes mixed with something else.i dont know.lol

[frankykeno]

Acts wierd how? Also here's our caresheet on ball pythons....


http://www.ball-pythons.net/modules....warticle&id=52


~~Jo~~

[JLC]

The only thing I've ever heard of a bp being "mixed" with is an Angolan Python (I think I got that name right) and that is very rare. It's highly unlikely that you have a cross. It looks like a lovely, normal bp. However, they do sometimes come with unique "personalities" in that some are more active than others or more scaredy-cat or more fiesty, etc.


It would be good to describe the weird behavior to help rule out anything symptomatic of illness or injury or husbandry that isn't quite right.

EDIT: By the way....sweet looking burm, Sean! Is that yours?

[Smulkin]

The only thing I've ever heard of a bp being "mixed" with is an Angolan Python (I think I got that name right) and that is very rare.

Don't forget the infamous blood-balls

[Adam_Wysocki]

Don't forget the infamous blood-balls

The ball hybrids don't stop there .... 2006 should be interesting if you're into that stuff.

-adam

[JLC]

Blood-balls? For real? I hadn't heard of that at all. Personally, I'm not into hybrids at all. But I don't have a moral argument against it like I've seen in some very heated debates on the issue.