Hi All, just got into the fun of having snek, bought a baby ball python a few weeks ago and things are going ok. (not a great first shed, but tried the hour in a container with warm paper towels the last two weekends and the little fellow looks good) Re-doing his 10 gl kit this week with repti bark for substrate, humidity and temp probes and a hide on top of the undertank heatpad and another hide on cool side. Water bowl he can fit in if he wants to soak.
Over the lat month, four successful feedings once a week so far with live hoppers (they squeak when he hits -- )
I stopped by a different herp shop this morning and they had an advertised retic with the exact same morph as my ""ball". WTF -- did I get sold a retic instead of a ball?

TLDR:
How can you tell a retic from a ball?