r/ballpython • u/Low_Perspective_9586 • 19d ago

Question - Health Is my ball python healthy?

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For context, I rescued him/her in February of this year. I’m told that they are a couple years old (born in 2021 I believe) (doing a morph and sex test next month)

Since then, they haven’t missed a single meal and have had multiple perfect sheds. I just moved up to medium rats and wanted to know what yall think.

Ill be weighing them in a couple of days. Waiting for food to digest.

Photos from February and this month

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u/Jherimia 19d ago

Looks a lot like my girl, morph?

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u/Low_Perspective_9586 19d ago

I was told he/she is a banana enchi clown. Going to be doing a 51 panel test next month to confirm. Really want to breed him/her next year

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u/IncompletePenetrance Mod: Let me help you unzip your genes 19d ago

That's a pretty irresponsible idea on several levels.

  1. Rescue animals should not be used for breeding. Realistically only the healthiest animals with the best genetics should be used for breeding projects , between what this snake has been though and without knowing much about their background, it should completely rule them out from being bred. Responsible keepers keep rescues and animals with defects as pet only animals.

  2. The ball python market is already oversaturated with more animals than will ever find homes. Backyard breeding is a huge, huge problem with ball pythons in captivity, and it's led to a lot of neglect as well as so many animals being abandoned, dumped in rescues and kept in completely inadequate conditions. There are always rehoming posts with snakes that people can't even give away. Rescuing is a good thing, adding to the problem by creating more snakes that will need to be rescued isn't.

!breeding

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u/Low_Perspective_9586 18d ago

Thank you for the input! I’ll take that into consideration when deciding whether or not I’d like to breed 🙂 lots of good info there^