In the wild, ball pythons are usually brown and tan. In America, breeding them to produce eye-catching offspring has become a lucrative, frenetic, and—for some—troubling enterprise.

While ball pythons are generally considered safe and beginner-friendly, they still require proper care, commitment, and a suitable habitat.

In this episode of SnakeBytesTV, we drive into breeding snakes and everything you wanted to know or maybe you didn’t about ball python breeding and ball python mating.

A selective python breeder has created an Emoji Ball Python snake after 8 years of trying. Justin Kobylka breeds snakes with unique patterns and sells them.

There is plenty of valid criticism surrounding pet breeding for cosmetic purposes, but for the details of what this specific project entails, you'd have to take it up with the python breeder.