Quote Originally Posted by Wh00h0069 View Post
Most of the ball pythons that are shipped from Africa have been picked through, so if there were something special about it, it would have been held back. These holdbacks are sold to the highest bidder; for example, big breeders.

Support the U.S. breeders. What is the sense in breeding ball pythons is everyone is just going to buy wc or ch balls anyway.

Also most balls that come from Africa have either parasites or mites. If you buy from a respectable breeder, you will get a healthy ball that will have a much better chance at surviving than an import.

This is just my opinion, but I feel strongly about it. I for one will never buy an import.

Unless the animal is a very high end new morph it will be sold to an importer along with 500 other balls, monitors, chameleons, etc. You cannot import just a morph ball and nothing else, as the exporters want you to take everything. When I buy special imports I get everything from aberrant, to yellow bellies, ghost, and new morphs, and they all come in with the reg. pet store animals.

The reason to but c.h or w.c is to get something different, and possibly new. You will never find some of these animals just showing up in captive production. If you are not conferable with w.c then go with c.h.

**The biggest misconception in importing balls : W.C Balls have mites/ Mites come from Africa. You will NEVER get a w.c ball with mites unless they are from animals here. Mites are not native to Africa, so w.c balls do not have them.

When we get a chance we will write up a little myth vs. truth on importing/ w.c balls as it seems to be a commonly discussed subject on here that a lot of people seem confused about.

Hope this helps clear a few things up.