My first (and only) ball python was a Bumblebee 100% het Clown. He was shipped with a animal shipping service on the 7th of July 2017 which is also the day he arrived (to minimize the stress for the animal you have to give it to them at night and then they drive to the destination the same night). At 8 o'clock in the morning he arrived and my hands were shaking when I opened the box he was in. He was absolutely beautiful, white with a few brown dots and the typical Spider pattern. He was a tight ball when I got him out of the bag he was in. I was afraid of hurting him since he was so small (he weighed exactly 100g) so I just put him into his quarantine box. He explored a bit and then went to sleep. Since I live near a river the humidity goes up the 90% in summer, so I had a lot of troubles with humidity in the beginning. I decided to just put the top of the box just on lightly so that air can circulate better but it just lead to my ball python escaping the first night I got him. I found him in some newspaper I had lying next to the quarantine box. After that I learned to always secure the enclosure.
I spent about two weeks sleeping most of the day and being awake at night to make sure he's ok.
Now he's about to turn 1 year and he weighs 550g. For some reason I thought he was going to turn out to be a brown adult Bumblebee ball python but he suddenly just turned very yellow. I was a bit confused since he didn't have any yellow spots when he was a baby. Now he is very yellow and has only very few brown dots. Bumblebees are not rare but I think he's gorgeous. He has also never struck at anyone but he did warn me once when I startled him. I love him <3
By the way his name is Friedrich. He was named after the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
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