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viandy
at Wed Apr 21 12:33:09 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by viandy ]
Here's a picture of a male I bought from Stefan Broghammer at Daytona in 2002. In his book, and when I asked him about this appearance, he called them "tiger / banded", but as a descriptive term, not as a morph or fixed mutation. In his book "Ball Pythons" he says "these animals are apparently more abundant in certain regions as some export traders succeed in incubating similar young whereas others fail to do so," which would make sense with traders having assigned areas to obtain their snakes from. He also states "We do not know yet how this disposition is inherited, but it seems to be intermediary." You can't really argue with that, can you?
In this photo, which I just took after reading this thread, the male is in shed and pretty dark. Also, he's been off food a bit, not unusual for this time of year, but he looks worse than he should. I'm also posting the female.
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