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here is the pic.

See what? All I see is two normal looking ball pythons.

I will take another pic due to the bad quality of the current one. In person they are like night and day.

one has dark centers and one has blushed centers.....

one is almond joy one is mounds

and they both need fed
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are they really?.....wow

I see the #28. Had to quit looking at detail to catch it. Cool pic.
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Randall L Turner Jr.
Boas make the world go round.

Is this one of those thing where they give you a picture and you have to write a story about it? I was never very good at those.

One day two normal ball pythons where sitting in a plastic box. Here is what they might say...

Snake 1: "It seems your dark spots are turning ligh colored!"

Snake 2: "you know this is perfictly normal of snakes like us. Many of us show blushing to different degrese. This dosnt mean I have a genetic defect."

Snake 1: "Oh yah, I forget sometimes 99.999% of us are normal, but its a good thing our keepers think we are special. We all need good homes."

Oops, it was suposed to be a story, I told you I was bad at this.

This one IMHO looks like the one you have pictured. the pattern does break at one spot, but its close. I have several others that also come close.

they look like very nice looking normal ball pythons. the one on the left kind of looks like a granite, but granites have more spotting within the lighter oval patterns.

ball pythons do have a wide range of variations in coloration and pattern in the wild [ie normal] morph. some have a little or alot of blushing in the darker areas, some have bigger or oddly shaped patterns, blotches and broken stripes and some could be lighter or darker in overall color or tend to be more yellowish than other normal balls.

that said, i am not an expert at detecting all the various normal looking but different morphs..such as granites, fireballs, mojoves, woma, etc that are out there. so many are almost identical looking when seen individually but side by side with a good camera, do look very distinctive from eachother.
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PHLdyPayne

I am getting a better pic of this animal that I will try to post by tomorrow, I had a great pic of this animal before I switched computers but I could not transfer for some reason. When I e-mailed it to clark,wilbanks,And miles they replied that they have not seen anything like it but it was different that any that they have seen. With that said, the pic that is posted almost hides all of the true colors. Thanks for the imput.

Congratulations, you have two completely NORMAL ball pythons!

>>here is the pic.
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Jeremy Conrad
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I have looked at that pic for 2 days now, and I still dont see ANYTHING that makes it other than normal. Point out ONE thing that makes it something more than normal! Blushing... almost all my normals have it... black back... got some of those too... good coloring... yup got them too... ones with all of that... yah, have them too... still all normal. Now if the owner sees something great in the snake, cool, I wish them luck. should they have posted a pic that makes it look 100% normal and then said "well this is just a bad pic, but its nothing like this".... NO. Would you go to sell a pastel and take a black and white picture?? No. So why would you post a picture saying, "here my cool snake, look how different it is" and the picture had bad color admittedly by the poster.

If you stand on a street corner and hold up a red and white target, you better expect people to take their best shot.

Seriously, I, too, thought it was the fact that their bodies were looped into the number “2 8” was what you might be talking about.

How about telling us what YOU think is unusual about them? You said in the other post that some well-known breeders told you that “they have not seen anything like it” before. What did THEY indicate was unusual about these snakes?