I bought this snake for $34 at an auction in September of 2005. I made the mistake of not looking the animal over before I bid on it. She was very skinny with her backbone protruding and obviously hadn't eaten in a long time. Probably WC.

She refused food so I assist fed her a few times and then she only ate a rat every 5 or 6 months and I didn't expect her to make it..... then in 2008 I bought some soft furred rats.....and she's been wolfing them down and packing on the weight and now looks fabulous, 1650 grams. Ironically, after I gave her SFRs for about a year, she now eats regular rats like a champ.

I have been leaving her alone and really hadn't looked at her much but yesterday I was cleaning cages when I noticed that she looked different than my other balls. So I placed a normal colored ball in w/her for comparison.

I thought she looked axanthic but I'm far, far, far from being any kind of an expert on ball python colors. So I thought I'd ask everyone else's opinion on the matter.