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Does anyone know how many leucistic (black or blue-eyed, pure white) ball pythons exist in the country? I thought that there were only one or two, but I've been seeing them on more and more breeders' sites...

Which brings me to the more prevalent issue: How many years of breeding (if ever) do you all think it would take before leucistic ball pythons were available to the "general public?" I've never seen a single one for sale, but of course a leucistic ball would be my "dream snake." I'd imagine that if one was to go up for sale nowadays, it would run around 50k. Will this figure ever go down?

....Or am I just shooting my mouth off and sounding niave?

Thanks to anyone who can even remotely answer any of my questions.
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A. Fox

The last thing I saw resembling a price on leucistics was a figure that said "over $150,000". granted, that was 2 years ago, but I don't think it's down very much from that mark. As far as numbers, I don't think there are more than 5 or 6 in the US, but I could be wrong.

In the March 2002 issue of Reptiles it says that the most expensive snake ever sold was a pure white, black-eyed ball python (leucistic), for over 150,000 dollars. Anybody know who sold and who purchased this snake? WOW!!!

Mark

If I remember correctly that would be Ralph's that he bought for 150k. But I could be wrong, but I dont think so
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Jeff Ludlow
Leopard Gecko's
1.4 Rw Patt Alb & 0.5 Albino(H)Patt
1.4 Patt(H)TR Alb
1.4 Blizzard
1.4 (DH)Blizz/Rw Alb
1.4 Super Hypo Baldy

Ball Pythons
1.0 Pastel Jungle
1.1 Yellow Belly(Phantom)
1.2(H)Albino
1.1(H)Piebald
1.2(H)Carmel Albino
1.16 Normals

Boas
1.2 (H)Snow
0.1 Albino(H)Snow

If Im not mistaken I think Peter Kahl bought that 150,000 dollar leucy from from an exporter from africa.