Burmese x Ball Python...

[Mad4You2]

We went to the DFW Lone Star Reptile show in Arlington Texas this weekend and Bob Clark was a vendor.

I will start with letting you guys know that I'm woefully neglectful of my picture taking and posting ... Jeff picked up a really nice Brazilian Rainbow Boa baby and I got a couple of 3 wk old Balls - one for us and one for a friend. Bob Clark was great and talked to us for a long time...

This lady walked by and turned around and asked Bob if he bred a Burmese with a Ball...he said "No, it wasn't me." She had stopped at a tub that was marked "Burmese Ball Python". I can't remember the price. I had heard a couple of guys talking at a table across the room about "burmese ball python....Bob Clark's table" and I rememberd seeing a large snake with the big pythons he was selling on one of his tables and thinking it was wierd that the tub had Burmese and Ball on the label. He told the woman that was talking to him that it was a female Burmese and a very large Ball Python that were bred and the snake she was asking about was an offspring.

Have you guys heard or seen one of these?

[basuca]

I remember reading that some dude actually put a bp and a burmise together and they lock but I dont know if they produced some eggs.

[anendeloflorien]

Huh, no I've never seen that before but it sounds interesting! I'd really like to see what the offspring look like and wonder how big they would get. That would be an interesting hybrid project for sure but like any hybrid project it would take a long time to really prove out since you'd want to make sure that the offspring were actually fertile and could continue the line.

I know Roussis reptiles has been working on the ball X blood hybrids for a while and I think this year he just hatched out his F2s!

[bassett524]

here ya go

http://www.schlangenfrank.de/bilder%203/diashow/index.htm

I found that on a random forum search through google. theres plenty of pictures. the odd part to me was they were also talking about a hybrid snake called a bateater.... to my knowledge there is a normal wild type snake commonly known as a bateater in caves native to borneo.

[tokaysunlimited]

here ya go

http://www.schlangenfrank.de/bilder%203/diashow/index.htm

I found that on a random forum search through google. theres plenty of pictures. the odd part to me was they were also talking about a hybrid snake called a bateater.... to my knowledge there is a normal wild type snake commonly known as a bateater in caves native to borneo.
African rock x retic.OR burm to retic..

[FloridaHogs]

Some beautiful colors and patterns, but they just look "off" in the face.....not sweet....if that makes any sense.

My fav pic is the third from the bottom.

[tokaysunlimited]

here you go Mike....

http://www.newenglandreptile.com/nerd/index.php/reticulated-pythons/bateater.html

[bassett524]

here you go Mike....

http://www.newenglandreptile.com/nerd/index.php/reticulated-pythons/bateater.html

interesting looking snake.. I found what I was looking for, it was on an episode of planet earth, the cave one. I forget the snakes name, but it actually ate bats and lived in caves.... hence my confusion, lol, sorry.

[basuca]

They look wired but cool. All this hybrids makes evolution look more complex. Supoced if an animal can breed with another specie then they are close in the evolutionary side. I can see it with the Bp and Burm. But there some wired mixes like bp and woma python. That makes no since at all!!

[tokaysunlimited]

interesting looking snake.. I found what I was looking for, it was on an episode of planet earth, the cave one. I forget the snakes name, but it actually ate bats and lived in caves.... hence my confusion, lol, sorry.

I know what you are talking about.Looked like a Morelia sp.

[anendeloflorien]

Yeah I saw the pics of the one that Bob Clark had on his table on another site.... I take it from what he was saying that he didn't actually hatch it, it was something that he bought maybe? I still think the most interesting thing will be to see how they look when they're a few years old, what size they get to, how the pattern comes out etc..

[Mad4You2]

Yeah I saw the pics of the one that Bob Clark had on his table on another site.... I take it from what he was saying that he didn't actually hatch it, it was something that he bought maybe? I still think the most interesting thing will be to see how they look when they're a few years old, what size they get to, how the pattern comes out etc..

When he was asked if he crossed a burm with a ball he said that he did not. It was for sale but I don't know if he bought it or traded for it or what....he did say the part about the mother being a Burmese and the father being a very large ball. It was pretty big, probably the size of a large full grown ball but definately not as big as the Brums and Retics he had on the table with it. I wish I had asked him more about it but we were wrapped up in the Rainbow Boas and trying to decide which one to get and he was talking to a woman that asked if he bred it....