Here are a few of our neat balls around here, as well as some big females, that have some nice patterns/color.

Here is a female pastel held back from the first clutch of pastels produced here a few years ago.


Here is the male pastel, also the above females dad.


This female was a wc baby which we kept and raised up, currently being bred to our male axanthic.


Here is another female with some nice coloring, a lot of caramel color on her, which you can't see much of from the pic.


Lastly here is another female with a nice pattern.


All those females either are a little under 2000 grams or tip the scale at 2000+.

that really is a very nice snake, I love the coloration.

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You have beautiful snakes!!

How long are they?
I wish there was a Body Mass Index for various snake species! My little Monty is about 10 months old, 65cm (25.5 inches) and 220g -- is he too thin? He doesn't look anywhere near as heavy as any of the pics you've posted (even the other two with the babies)

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Andrea

Monty was a problem feeder though. Now that he's back on feed, I'm sure you'll see weight gain in no time. Monty and my guy have always been about the same in size, and Olie has gained at least 2 cm in girth in the last like 6 weeks. Monty will get there too! Don't worry, especially now that he's on rats, right? I just read an article about how the benefit of rats over mice is that rats have more body fat, which in turn affects how much weight your little guy gains. It's not a contest to see who has the biggest balls, they all grow differently based on their individual situations.

You really got beautiful snakes!!

I'm not worried about Monty's size too much. I think he looks pretty "well-balanced" but most ball pythons I see are so huge in the middle! I'm just wondering if that's the way they're supposed to look or if those are just being fed more. ????
I agree that rats are so much better for boas and pythons -- all 3 of my snakes are now on rat diets. Monty's really been doing well with the rat pinkies!

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Andrea

I love the first female pastel,,,more pics please !!

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Well all these animals are either adults or sub-adults, so of course they are a lot bigger, having a picky eater can somewhat effect their growth rate of course. The picky eaters around here are usually baby pastels, some take food right off the bat, others are force fed till they go to it on their own, most that are force fed only go through that a few times, and then they turn completely around and just start nailing food. Most of the babies around here are pigs though. At ten months old, they are usually a few hundred grams by that time, for males they would probably be 600 grams or over, which is breeding size for them, helps to have good eaters, and ones that will take rats usually eat like pigs and grow nicely. Balls are short and stocky snakes, much like blood pythons I suppose, but of course different. Usually by their 2nd or 3rd year balls depending on male and female, and eating habits, they will be fully grown, or at least slowed down in their growth. Im sure now that yours is not being such a fussy eater that he will start to grow nicely for you.

That first pastel, is one of the 3 females hatched out in the first clutch of pastels here a few years back, picky things, she probably has the best colors so far out of them. I will see if I can snap some decent shots of them.

They are beautiful. I really want another BP morph other than normal, lol.

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