Month January 2016

Along Came a Spider

When I first jumped back into the ball python world, I was afraid of Spiders. Not the eight legged creepy crawly ones, but the super sweet, reduced pattern ball python morph. As I was sitting there with my one female…

Follicular Development

For this addition to ball python breeding section, I’d to talk about follicular development and how I cycle my animals to prepare them for the breeding season. Now when I say “cycle” I’m referring to how I manipulate the temperatures…

Piebald Ball Python

The piebald ball python is one of very few color and pattern mutation. It’s a simple recessive mutation which means both parents of the visual offspring must have at least one copy of the gene. As far as visually appealing…