I was thinking about this the other day when I noticed some cool new Ball Python photos posted on this forum, that it is interesting and exciting to notice that many of new genetic mutations that have been discovered in past couple years have come from just your average hobbyist and snake keeper and not from the 3,4 or 5 big names in Ball Pythons. I was looking through the posts from that fellow from Nerd for example (Satin is his tag think?) and they are unbelievable cool snakes, but from what I can tell they are all existing genetic mutations. True, there are 4,5 or more mutations going on at once, but for the most part they are all genes that anyone can purchase and create with enough time, money and effort.

It is really cool to think that any person with a pair of normal looking Ball Pythons they got for $19.99 each at Petco and keep together in a 10 gallon fish tank with cheap plastic Ivy on the wall can be the key to some unreal new genetic creation that is one of a kind on the entire planet. You never know, you may have the genetics in your collection now to create something mind blowingly fantastic and not even know it and that is the cool thing to realize.

Now get out there and breed them.

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