Ball pythons grow for their entire lives, so a ball python with a hormone or glandular issue that would cause mammals to continue to grow beyond their normal size would probably not have an effect on ball pythons. Since they continue to grow for their whole life, they might already have this, so it might not be possible for gland issues to happen in them.
The "giant" ball pythons are from Volta, Ghana. The ball pythons in that region regularly grow to larger than average sizes for ball pythons, but it takes them a long time to achieve those sizes. It isn't like the giant leopard gecko gene, where they are double the normal size by the end of their first year, but adults do tend to reach extremely large lengths and weights, with males looking like your average large adult female, and Volta females reaching lengths of 6'+ and laying extremely large clutches in the 15-20+ eggs range.
I was supposed to buy a female pastel that was from a pastel male x Volta female, but the breeder never contacted me when the clutch was available. A female pastel that regularly dropped 15+ eggs would be worth it's weight in gold. Not that your average female pastel shouldn't still be worth it's weight in gold, but apparently we can't stop 300 basement breeders from dropping the prices to $50 a piece. But that's for another thread.
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