![]() ![]() Do your research on who you're buying it from. And in every single year that I breed ball pythons, I have at least a dozen of them that I need to teach how to eat. And then when babies got feed more dangerous than when adults go off feed, they don't have the body mass, the body weight to fall through that fasting. And yet, you know, babies can go off feed. So, you know, things that we can't control, like barometric pressure has so much of an impact that we don't really consider. And, you know, although the ball python is on its way to technically be a domestic animal, they're still not there yet. So, you know, things like barometric pressure or things like cold fronts, things like, you know, our weather here in North America, Canada, Europe, it's different than Africa. When I was in Africa, I asked a lot of breeders if they were having problems and none of them did. ![]() And, you know, ball pythons are notorious for being problem feeders in this side of the world. They would put them in the freezer, because they didn't believe that anybody would buy a broken ball python.ĭāv:They do. And so I called everybody that I knew when I said, Hey, do you know anything about breeding ball pythons? And everybody was like, Why would you want to breed ball pythons? And, you know, a lot of people don't know that, when the importers would get pieds, when they would get mojaves, when they would get, you know, the wild, you know, color and pattern morphs pied as a wild, existing, you know, morph. And so I don’t remember when, but long before the ball python craze, I imported a pair of adults from an importer in Florida, happened to be a male and a female adult. The type of thing that, if it happened today, would get you immediately canceled in the reptile world. ![]() They would come in from Africa covered in mites and ticks and internal parasites. Ball pythons were considered junk snakes. Dāv:So back in the nineties you would get, there was no captive breeding going on. ![]()
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