I'd say I rubbed off on my bf: he was always interested in snakes and wanted one but after I had my six (now I have 13) he got his first: a little normal ball (he bought me a little normal male too ) and now he has seven himself!

We plan on combining our snakes (the balls) together in the coming years for breeding purposes when we have the extra time and space to do so (it's funny because so far I've been focusing on getting bigger proven norm females and little girl morphs while he's been gearing more towards male morphs) lol