Quote Originally Posted by meeistom View Post
For the record more then 1 of both spider's and pin's have been found. I was sent a hatchling spider from a bush caught female. Just about all recessive morphs are found every season. I work with a "ball lord" in africa and i've seen so many single gene morph either be found in the bush or captive hatched from gravid females found in the bush. The only morphs I haven't seen are banana's, champagne's, and sentinel's. Just because we don't hear about these things doesn't mean it doesn't happen. The US isn't the only market and a lot of the guys in Africa sell things with out letting anyone else know and they get shipped all over the world.
They know what the morphs are worth they have access to the internet just like we do and they do keep anything crazy.

Your ball lord gave you a spider hatched from a breeding he did. They are breeding in captivity in africa as well as hatching wild caught stuff. Unless you are a big importer with people on the payroll in country in africa then you are no different then any of us in the states and you wont get any other special treatment. The bottom line is these so called ball lords are going to sell to the highest bidder. Unless you are one of those high bidders then your not getting anything special out of the bush. Just cause people see pics of a balls habitat in books doesnt mean thats what it looks like in all the places they hide. Alot of the wild caught stuff is found in termite mounds under ground. Under ground is where the water is in alot of parts of togo, benin, and ghana. Balls dont spend most of their lives crawling and cruising above ground so camoflauge is not as big of a thing as some has mentioned here. Sometimes overthinking a situation will get things flawed. The bottom line is the ball python market is a huge multi million dollar market therefore its controlled by money. As with any industry the ones with the money control the market. The ones with the money are the ones who are going to be getting these one of a kind animals. Not some guy from home town usa with a hope and a dream.