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Which line of ball pythons currently being reproduced produces the LARGEST NORMAL offspring that end up being the LARGEST ADULT BALL Pythons? I am talking about Normal appearing ball pythons, NO pattern or color morphs or albinos. Is anybody working with a line of ball pythons that is being currently bred for increased size? Larger or much larger than normal?

Thank you,

Fred Albury

Not sure if anyone is working on that but look at this female.

That is a good question, one I have asked myself before.

Breeding for size is something I was going to look into after I get my first albino(one thing at a time)

I know it can be done, it has with burms. The guy I got one of my burms from, has been breeding them for years to get smaller ones. The 7 year old female I have from him is only about 12', the male a friend got from him, is 5 years old and only 9'. Not dwarfs, just normals bread to be smaller. If he can make burms smaller, I'm sure with time I could get bigger balls.

I'm sure with time I could get bigger balls.

sounds painful.

i had met someone who claimed to have owned a 7ft female but always flaked out when it came time for me to go see her. but i'm sure someone has imported some of those extra large females that have been found. what ever happened to that video link some posted earlier this summer with the huge female found in a burrow with 2 smaller males and 15 eggs.
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A friend of mine swore that Tom Crutchfield had an 8 ft rabbit eater back in the early 90's when the show was at Orlando.

I did correspond with a guy who had a really big female (don't remember just how big) and some of its offspring that where big but every time you moved them to a new cage/keeper they would stop eating for a year. Don't know if he was able to keep them eating well enough to reproduce regularly.

There is a certain local out of africa, between 2 mountain ranges, the girls there get 8ft and as large as 8k grams. I kid you not. I own 2 that are only about 1.5 years old and they weigh 3500 grams. I have seen many females from this area and i have seen the huge ones first hand... I cant wait to start seeing monster morphs. Im breeding my girls this season to pastels and spiders. It will be interesting to see if the gene is inheritaed and causes there ate of growth to increase. we will see....

I would love to have a python that would stop growing at seven feet. I'm a solo keeper, and six to seven feet would be the maximum size that I could handle on my own.

Bill
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It's not how many snakes you have. It's how happy and healthy you can keep them.

Try a blood python...