As an expert (sarcasm here!) who has seen TWO whole pictures of fireballs I'm struck that they are not only bright animals with reduced fading pattern but those two also are rather banded without connection of the bands as much as yours. Of course normal balls vary a lot in respect to banding and perhaps fireballs do also but on the other hand perhaps the disconnected banding is part of the mutation.
Here is a pet store male that I was offered $400 for last winter by someone who might well have known what a fireball looked like by then. After the offer I saw that he had patterned sheds (I bought him hoping he might be a ghost) and he eventually produced 6 perfectly normal babies so I'm not to worried that I already sold him for about what I bought him for, $80.
My point is that there might be a lot of fireballish looking animals out there that look close enough to even peak the interest of those familiar with them in taking them out of circulation but which probably aren't the real thing. Nice that now everyone can know a little about them.
