What do you look for in purchasing a ball python?

[Staddon]

Those heavily gened ball pythons tend to get all muddy and no offense to anybody, quite ugly as grown snakes. Why do you think when advertising people only show babies fresh out of the egg, and never show an example of it fullgrown ??

I'll stick to quality 2-3 gene that stays good looking as the snake ages.

Agreed!

'Clown firefly', 'leopard Mochi' and 'bamboo enchi YB' are some targets I really want to hit!! All nice 3 genes that grow up still looking great.