Quote Originally Posted by cchardwick View Post
I noticed that some of my ball pythons have bigger heads than others, I was wondering if there was some kind of genetics going on there. I have a few that are the same weight but the heads are bigger, I suppose they have to potential to get much bigger. My biggest one at nearly 4000 grams has a huge head!
The 2 BIG rescue females I've had, as well as Jag, all have had large heads. Not freakishly large, of course, but larger then what I'm used to seeing on big Ball Pythons.
I think some Ball Pythons are simply overfed, so they may have the "weight" but their heads are small compared to their girth.

Larger females in the 3000 gr range actually do happen a fair bit. 4000+ becomes more rare, because some of them may actually just be over fed and don't produce well as breeders. But then there are the ones that are huge AND produce well. The priority with most breeders lies in the morphs, though, not in size so much. Unless you have a het, you can "see" what you get with a morph. Buying a hatchling with a promise "it will get huge" is quite the leap of faith Not really a profit to be made there, esp. since most of the huge ones are "normals".

Jag is just my "little" weirdo, because he is a male and big like this. But I still love him. Even though I'm now having to consider to upping his cage size again