This is the very first picture of my new baby piebald ball python, Princess Lania Sharee. I am also using the same pic for my avatar as itis the best picture I have of any of my snakes & I think she is so pretty. This picture is also courtesy of Garrick DeMeyer of Royal Constrictor Designs, the breeder where she is still at right now. She was hatched out on 07-09-10, so Mr. DeMeyer will finish feeding her out & ship her on Sept. 1 For arrival on Sept.2. This is my very first ball python even tho' I have 21 other snakes. My son did get himself a normal ball python in '96 when he was in high school, & it was a wc. We didn't know that & we also had to force feed it everything it ate til it got to where it regurgitated it all back up. After he had so much trouble with that snake I just shied away from them. I love some of the neat morphs they come in these days.


I named her sorta' after my sister that died in May & would have had a birthday Aug.31. Her name was Sharon Lee. I can't wait for her to get here. I hope to get a male next yr. & look forward to breeding in a few yrs. Let me know what ya'll think of P. Lania. Do you think I made a good buy at $850.00? I'm still learning about morphs & pricing, but I think I should have paid more for her.

Thanks, I think Mr. DeMeyer just felt sorry for me for bugging him so much about when his pied eggs were going to hatch. I know I can't be fair in my opinion cause I just love her looks, but I do want to look forward to breeding when she is mature & would a pied male be what I will want to go with her? I have only my books mostly to go by on trying to figure out morphs & what makes them. One book says two pieds will make more pieds. Is that true? I read some morphs need to use other het balls to produce what you are striving for. I also would like another female of some other morph (not sure which yet) so what morph would be compatible with a pied male to get good babies? I know I ask too many questions, but you raise balls & know this stuff. I can't learn if you don't know how little I know.

Thanks once again for the info. I plan on getting a pied male next yr. This yr. I wouldn't be able to pay that much after buying P. Lania. If what I read is right males mature faster than females, so she would have a year's head start on him. I know that what you told me is what the book said, but it just seems easier to understand when you explain it. Guess cause you're a real person & a book is inanimate. That doesn't really make sense, but that's how I view it. My biggest problem I see with breeding is going to be letting go of the babies. I know I will fall-in-love with them & won't want to sell any til my house is overrun with 'em! That's luckily a long ways off.