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What is a RINGER?

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Pardon my ignorance. My husband always hated Ball Pythons ("Sausage Snakes") until one of his students gave him one that was no longer wanted. Yesterday he had me buy 10 more on the internet. So I'm trying to learn as much as I can. I saw a copy of an advertisement, and a photograph, of a "ringer"? But I couldn't quite figure out WHAT in the photo made it a "ringer".

Thanks for answering the question. :)
 
A 'Ringer' ball python is basically a normal ball that has a white, almost piebald spot near the vent on the underside of the snake. That spot can in some cases work its' way around the lower body of the snake. That spot can also result in discoloration around the lower portion of the snake to include patches of piebald coloration or pastel coloration.

From what I have read this is an abberrant trait and not something that is genetic. I read a description of a ringer at the Reptiles magazine web site that indicated that a 'Ringer' is essentially a normal ball python that is about 5% piebald.

I recently purchased a male ringer from Sean Bradley at Exoticsbynature.com and it has beautiful pastel/piebald coloring on the lower section of the tail below the vent to go along with its' piebald spot.

Hope this helped.


Larry D. Stassin
 
Thank you, that's a very clear definition.

Funny enough, I had a dream about a snake and the exact coloration you are talking about was the coloration of the snake in my dream... I remember asking my dream-buddy if they thought it was piebald, or just an aberrant white spot that didn't mean much.

Again, thanks for the clear response. Now I understand the terminology. One down, a hundred more to go ! :D
 
Picture

Here is a pic of one I hatched this year. To complicate maters, he is also 25% chance het piebald and based on the black striping at the edge of the belly I believe actually a het. Whether or not ringers are more likely in het pieds is a subject of hot debate. There are for sure ringers that have nothing to do with piebald though.

<img src=http://ratrun.home.comcast.net/images/Snakes/M03PREM9Ring.jpg>
 
Oh Oh! When you said ringer I couldn't help but think of my fav. movie!

Ringer=
[n] a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses
[n] (informal) a person who is almost identical to another

Such as in the Big Lebowski:

WALTER
Take the ringer. I'll drive.

The Dude takes the briefcase and slides over.

DUDE
The what?

WALTER
The ringer! The ringer, Dude! Have
they called yet?

The Dude opens the briefcase and paws bemusedly through it as the car starts rolling.

DUDE
What the hell is this?

WALTER
My dirty undies. Laundry, Dude.
The whites.

DUDE
Agh--

He closes the briefcase.

DUDE
Walter, I'm sure there's a reason
you brought your dirty undies--

WALTER
Thaaaat's right, Dude. The weight.
The ringer can't look empty.

DUDE
Walter--what the fudge are you
thinking?

WALTER
Well you're right, Dude, I got to
thinking. I got to thinking why
should we settle for a measly fudgeing
twenty grand--

DUDE
We? What the fudge we? You said you
just wanted to come along--

WALTER
My point, Dude, is why should we
settle for twenty grand when we can
keep the entire million. Am I wrong?
 
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