Quote Originally Posted by Samara View Post
I went to a few breeders websites and went to the store that had just received 5 wild caught baby pythons. I found the one I wanted and yes it was a wild caught ball python from Africa... I did not listen and I was holding and loving on my new baby from day 1.

My wife who fell in love with Samara in just 2 weeks had found a ball python that was captive breed about 6 months later. Sahara was 1 and half when we adopted her. Sahara had also lived in a cage with other pythons and she was vey nippy at first.
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Samara, the bolded part of your post above is more than likely the reason why your wild caught/captive hatched is better adjusted than your captive bred.

Wild caught specimens are usually adult or sub-adult when they enter the U.S. At that time, the drastic change from the wild to a captive facility then over to shipment and finally to a guy's home is a lot of change for a wild caught that causes it a lot of stress.

Captive bred specimens don't have as drastic a change to their environment.

Also, for nature preservation/conservation purposes, we prefer to keep wild population as untouched as possible except for purposes of introducing new genes to the captive pet industry. As Brian Barczyk of BHB Reptiles (Snakebytes.tv) always says - "Conservation through captive propagation". So we discourage wild caught specimens for pets. We encourage captive bred for pets and leave the wild caught to the breeders to diversify the gene pool.

Hope this helps you see a different perspective on things.