Quote Originally Posted by Ripley2 View Post
I've looked around online and for some reason cant find an answer to if albino ball pythons have sight issues. I have one, and when I go to pick him up he jumps almost like he didn't see me(in a way my others don't) and often hisses/strikes at me when picking him up. Always 100% docile and seems calm once lifted. Actually one of my most trustworthy once he's out! He always misses his food more often than my others, otherwise perfectly normal and healthy.(He is feed frozen or prekilled of course!) This might be a really stupid question.. but I cant find an answer for some reason.
I find this to be true in some sort of way in my Albino Ball Pythons. Never a prob with my Burm. They act strangely to shadows and flinch with delay as if they don't see the moving object itself but maybe its shadow. To some extent I notice this with my BEL too but not even half as much. I thought maybe i was spooking them however i wake them first and also also notice they run into things when out of the enclosure as if they never saw the wall, couch, table etc...
Over the years I've heard about site issues but was never much into Ball Pythons and never noticed this in the Python specie (Albino Burmese) Ive had.


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