Quote Originally Posted by jnjreptiles View Post
The giant ball could also be a locality that gets huge known as sub Sahara balls. they are from the Vaultar (sp?) mountain region of Northern Ghana.

There have been some imported and they are huge, not just size but there body is different like a BCI boa vs. BCC. The heads on them are huge, we bought 3 of them last month from Ian G and at the 3000 gram range there heads were 2x the size of the other monster females we picked up.

Our smallest sub Sahara is 2900 + grams and her head is twice the size of a 3500 gram ghost female we picked up.
They are known for giving huge clutches, 27 eggs was reported in Africa, and I believe pics were sent over too. Ozzyboids had one that gave 18 eggs.

The biggest one I know of was imported by Ian and was 7200 grams (17+ pounds!) and we have heard of 8200 gram ones in Africa, that is probably the giant one the original poster was talking about, was a sub Sahara.

I will see if I can get pics of any of the monsters, or at least get a comparison shot of our 3000-3500 gram subs compared to a 3500 gram reg. ghost.

These are some killer snakes worth looking into, they feed easily and have great potential to breed morphs into, as they are giants not old .
Very interesting jnjreptiles! Many animals show diversity within the same species based on region. I was speaking with a friend about his Green Tree pythons (he owns 13) and he was explaining the amazing color variations based on locality. For example he was telling me about one of his adults which retains the juvenile yellow coloring and is found in a specific area of new guinea (which I guess makes it a yellow tree python). I have also observed differences among common brown house snakes in different regions of south africa.

The specimen I saw at the museum was also heavily bodied, and if memory serves I saw some very large specimens at the Transvaal snake park in my youth (along with the first Anchieta's dwarf python I had seen, a close relative). So it could well be the locality you mentioned favors larger size in this species.

If you can get a hold of any pictures and post them that would be great, along with any details of age, locality found etc.

Thanks!,

Dave