While I agree that nothing is 100% guarantied, I don't really think patterns change in ball pythons much. I've kept "baby" pictures of mine and periodically (especially at breeding time) compare them to the adults just to be sure there hasn't been a mix up. It looks to me like the patterns might stretch a little but I've found distinctive pattern elements in all of mine and have found good photos to be an excellent low cost way to identify individual ball pythons. Of course a reseller could doctor documentation and change photos etc. so no it's not perfect but I find it a useful tool.



Maybe if I ever start producing for sure hets I’ll maintain original photo’s on my web site for potential resellers and purchasers to check against. If you produce many I suppose that gets to be a lot of work and space but I’ve already had two cases of people buying my possible possible het crap and trying to resell it as 100% het.

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