Want to try breeding, which morph should I get?

[Rmorse]

Hey guys!

If you look at my history, you'll see I recently started a thread with my current enclosure in it. Unfortunately, my enclosure is muuuuch too big for a ball python. However, I'm turning a negative into a positive! I'm splitting the enclosure into three seperate levels, which means three snakeys! After I get the top level situated with proper heat and humidity, I'm going to start on the other two levels. Once they get proper, it's time for two more snakes. I eventually (like, in a year or so) want to try my hand at breeding. So, keeping that in mind, which morphs should I pick up for the other two snakeys?


I currently have a female pastel. The girlfriend wants a piedball, and for the sake of keeping her happy, I think we will end up getting a pied. That being said, should I get a female or male pied? And what should the other morph be? I'm trying to get the coolest/greatest variation morphs out of three snakes, with one being a female pastel.

So, here's what I was kicking around:
0.1 pastel
0.1 pied
1.0 spider


Any other suggestions?

[Wes]

Make sure you get a Spider Het Pied, that way you can get Bumble Bees From Your pastel female and more Pieds from you Pied female.

[snake lab]

Yep you need the pied gene in the back end since its a recessive genetic. So if its spider you want make sure ya get a spider 100% het pied

[Rmorse]

Ok cool.

And same daddy, different momma is still a no-go for breeding babies, right?

In other words, if I have those three snakes and get babies from the pied and pastel, I can't breed them together, right?

[snake lab]

Yea you can. Its not like people. Your not going to get a 2 headed snake. Wait but if ya do you will make a fortune on it

[WingedWolfPsion]

Reptiles in general are extremely resistant to ill effects from inbreeding. Birds and mammals tend to develop issues pretty quickly when inbred for too many generations, but reptiles are apparently made of sturdier genetic stuff.
You can inbreed or line breed them for many generations without any issues, though of course, there's no need to take it to extremes and tempt fate.

[Rmorse]

That's just weird, lol.

So, what about breeding with snakeys that are siblings?

[Homegrownscales]

As stated before inbreeding or line breeding is not an issue for many generations. It's quite Alright to breed two sibs together. Line breeding is exactly how some of these gorgeous morphs were discovered.


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