Can Ball Pythons have clutches with multiple sires?

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:

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

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

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.

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.

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

Here's hoping for a bumblebee.

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