Can Ball Pythons have clutches with multiple sires?

[mojavereptiles]

This year, I bred my normal female to a butter male. Once during the breeding season, I put a Bumblebee in with her. No locking was witnessed, but she had numerous locks with the Butter...

The first snake out of the egg was this beautiful butter:








The second was this... pastel? What the...:








so... can a female ball python carry sperm from multiple males into her clutches?

[Oxylepy]

Yes. Look at the Baileys competition (I think that's the name), it involves 16 males bred to one female. Each offspring could be from any of those males.

[Royal Morphz]

Yes I have a Clutch that just came out with Pewters, Cinnamons, Pastel Mojos and Pastels and the to males put in with this Normal was a Pastel Mojo and a Pewter.

[mojavereptiles]

So wild... it was just very unexpected out of 4 eggs, 2 are butter, one is pastel, and the other hasn't pipped yet

[Oxylepy]

Here's hoping for a bumblebee.

[bad-one]

Congrats on the double sired clutch! Very pretty babies, I really like the pastel