Python Passion

Python Passion is located near Knoxville, Tennessee and specializes in captive bred ball pythons.  Currently, we have 9 ball pythons in our collection and photos of those animals are available in the "Our Collection" section.  We have one clutch of babies in 2009, a normal X 100% het albino pairing for some 50% possible het albino babies.  Hopefully our 2010 season will be even better, as we hope to breed for albinos and spiders.

Python Passion believes in quality animals, not quantity.  We are reptile hobbyists and we are not in this to make profit.  This is something we do because we love the animal and breeding them is an joy to us.  Any money we bring in goes back into caging, food, equipment, etc. for our collection.  Here are the ways we are trying to make sure our animals are healthy:

We believe the key to healthy baby snakes is to begin with healthy adult snakes.  We do not house any of our adults in rack systems.  We believe that an animal should have a warm side and a cool side in order to properly regulate its body temperature; therefore, all of our adults are housed in large enclosures.  Right now, some are housed in glass tanks and some are housed in stackables as we are in the process of converting all adults' enclosures to stackables from Animal Plastics.  The stackables keep more consistent temperature and humidity than glass tanks, but are roomier than racks and allow for lighting cycles.  You will see pictures of a rack system on our site from time to time as we do use them to house babies right after hatching.  When babies hatch, there are so many to house all at once that a rack is our only option.

All baby snakes are kept for two months after hatching to establish a feeding pattern and to monitor for signs of illness.  Only when the baby establishes a regular feeding pattern and shows all signs of being healthy will we label it a "for sale" animal.

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