Breeding

[Jluton072]

I have a 2 month old Male Yellow belly ball python and my friend just bought a adult female chocolate ball python and I was wondering what would be a good morph to breed it with. I plan on getting a adult male sometime this week so any suggestions would be useful :)

[Aaron_S]

Anything you like.

Goto worldofballpythons.com and look around.

[Lankyrob]

Welcome to the asylum, the inmates love pictures ;)

[Kiljosh]

Just from the sound of those two breeding together made me think Chocolate Banana.

[Jluton072]

Well the lady decided that she didn't want to sell her chocolate after we had already drove 200 of the 300 miles to pick it but we found 2 female regular het clowns and a regular het albino male for 300 so hopefully we can get at least one albino clown

[Jluton072]

Will post pics of babies if I can get them to lock up

[Aaron_S]

Well the lady decided that she didn't want to sell her chocolate after we had already drove 200 of the 300 miles to pick it but we found 2 female regular het clowns and a regular het albino male for 300 so hopefully we can get at least one albino clown

That's a horrible idea.

Both clown and albino are recessive.

That means is BOTH parents need to carry the albino or clown gene to produce them.

What you have there is a project for normals that are all POSSIBLE double het for albino clown.

You should research before you buy.

[Wyldrose]

Yep now you need to look for a male clown and a female albino(for the best odds at producing morphs)

Breeding them together will give you all normals with a 50% chance of being het clown and/or 50% chance at being het albino. With recessive traits being carried it is very hard to tell who carries what. Some traits have "Het markers" but they are not 100% reliable. So basically you will be only producing $25 normals.

If anything I wrote is confusing then you need to do lots more research. Breeding is not about just putting two pretty animals together and hoping something happens. Learning genetics is a big part of becoming a respectful breeder.

[Jluton072]

I also just purchased a Female Mojave and a Male Mojave mix im not sure what the male is exactly I know he has mojave because he has the trait patterns but he is also extremely dark and has 2 orange spots right behind his head. Any ideas? I went to worldofballpythons.com but cant find anything close to what he looks like when i get my camera working again I will post pics.

[Jluton072]

I am still doing alot of studying about how genetics work and how dominant, co- dominant, lesser, het, hypo and axanthic effect breeding outcomes.

[Aaron_S]

It could just be a mojave male. Ball pythons can look different as normals, we have light/dark/busy pattern/reduced pattern so the mutations can do the same as well.

I think you should do more studying before you start breeding.

Albino and clown are both recessive.