Quote Originally Posted by Brimstone111888 View Post
It makes sense, but as Heather said without definite evidence its hard to say. I'm still interested in that subspecies of Ball pythons that is mamoth. Somewhere in African mountains.
The "giant" balls, are called sub sahara's and are from the valtan region of Ghana, they do make genetically larger babies, kind of like certain localities of retics get larger than other localities.

We have eggs from one of our sub sahara females, and are going to keep track of weights and growth rates compared to normals, to see how fast they grow. We are going to breed them into morphs to increase the females size to get bigger clutches, and possibly try to improve certain animals such as pieds.

We will keep every one posted on how it turns out.

As for size on regular balls, I think it depends on the age of the snake, if its younger snakes with very fast growth then there is a strong chance of passing the trait on, whereas older snakes of unknown age might be large but also be 20+ years old, so there size would not be very noticeable on a genetics level.

(Just our thought on the subject, not sure if there has ever been any research done on it?)