OK, so another thread on here got me thinking ...

You know how ball pythons sometimes do that thing where they lose what appears to be absolutely ALL of their brown pigment, and end up going from normal to looking like the world's best axanthic in just one shed?

That happened to this girl, for example:






The brown on her head and back is what's left of her pigment, not stuck shed or a stain although it does look like one.

At any rate, conventional wisdom is that this phenomenon is due to some sort of metabolic stress, or is a random event, and is not genetic.

However, the ONLY morph ball python I have ever read or heard of this happening to is the spider ball.

Now, I'm not suggesting that it is at all a reproduceable trait, but it just got me curious.

Has anyone ever had a ball python do this? If so, what morph (if any) was it?

Also, how long did it (the decreased pigmentation) last?