When I was a kid I had a ball python. I loved it everything about it. The size, girth and length was what I feel a snake should be. I liked how the neck narrowed then the head pops out. That's what a snake should look like. But my brother was feeding a friends snake and never washed his hands and then handled our wild caught ball and got bit. Being a 7 year old kid. I was terrified of ball pythons from that point. When I wanted to get a new snake for a pet I considered a lot of different options. Corn snakes, milk snakes, corn snakes, hog noses, and sand boas all look like large worms or eels TO ME (Not to say everyone does or should feel this way). Red Tails were to big for my taste; same with burmese, and retics. Plus I never really liked fast paced snakes that slithered everywhere. In between 7 and 15 I had owned different corn snakes and boas, but never really liked any of them. When I was 15 years old a friend of mine got an albino burmese for $100 and it was about 7ft I think it was a yearling or so. I'm not a burmese expert. But I absolutely loved this snake it was basically a large ball python. And I couldn't believe the way the yellow popped of the white, but I new the burmese would be too big. So I started searching for a new snake to take the place of a ball. I found the three options. Brazilian Rainbow, (which I saw amazing pictures where the orange popped, with the iridesent glow, and that was it, but then I saw them in person they just looked brown and boring. Albino balls were my number one pick, but at the time the $3500 price tag was a huge deterant. And I talked myself into the fact that a california king looked cool and settled on that. I never liked any snake I ever owned except for the ball python and lost interest in snakes and just cared for the animals I owned. Then I delivered to a guy who bred snakes and told him my story. It was no surprise when he told me the price of albino balls had gone down, but it shocked me when he said how much. From $3500 to $350 was a descent drop. Anyway I was interested in snakes again and it was all balls. As my interest grew I decided breeding would be something I wanted to do. So I sold off all the snakes I no longer liked and got a small collection of ball python morphs, but the very first one I bought was an Albino Ball Python I had wanted for 13 years and it's still my very favorite in my collection in though it's the least expensive. My point is you have to buy what you want.

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