Here is our original orangebelly male that started our bloodline. He is 8 years old and we got him as an import from ghana. We found him and another female yellowbelly in one shipment we imported, but there was something different about him. He was way prettier than most yellowbellies and incredibly blushy and orange. Even in this pic as an old man he is still a pretty attractive ball python.
That same year we purchased and adult wild caught female that I thought was a yellowbelly. Alot of people doubted that she was one, but I had a good feeling about her--she was a dark type yellowbelly. She was big and thin, but started feeding right away. Was not until approx 18 months later that she finally had her first clutch from her after she settled in. We bred this male to her and made 2 ivories. We sold them both for quite a bit of money. The following year the female baby that came in with the ob male was of breeding size and this one went again as well. That year we made 5 ivories--the graphite and 4 others. We kept the graphite and have used him as our primary ivory breeder. He has fathered some very unusual stuff including the weird ultra babies and this other paradox as well which ended up being a paradox graphite ivory
I felt so bad for the original og orangebelly this year I threw him a couple of normal females to have fun with!
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