Thanks for the replies. That is an interesting thought about the skin disorder and makes me curious if it is at all the same in snakes. I'd have to imagine that being cold blooded and having scales makes it alot different than warm blooded and skin, but who knows. I told my buddy that it would actually look kind of cool if the whole snake went thru that change. Would make his spider look a little like a bee. Who knows, maybe that means she will produce some killer looking bee's whenever she is ready to start breeding. It makes me wonder about the spider gene. What if the wobble is just a trait of hormonal imbalance too? Time for some scientist to step up with ball pythons and dig deeper. It doesn't take a biologist to understand the simple genetics of ball pythons morphs, but what about the genetics tied to the dna that cause these funky behavioral traits and odd changes like this?

Anyway, feel free to keep chiming in!!