BP breeding questions

Let me start by saying I don't want to get into this hobby for money and I consider it just that, a hobby. I currently own 3 snakes (Normal, spider, pastel het leopard pied) and owned one before them. I have never bred snakes however. I've been reading different websites on breeding BPs, including the sticky posts here. I'm wondering if anyone can recommend any books or websites with additional information that would be helpful?

I would like to breed bumblebees (which was probably obvious) and pieds. But I haven't really decided on any other morphs I would like to produce. When breeding morphs is there any particular ones that are good to start with?

Any additional information or thoughts would be good. I don't have any females of breeding size, my only female is the pastel who is about 300gr right now. So we have a long way to go before she's ready.

Thanks in advance!

this website is basically the place to go. so many breeders are active here, if you have any question, you will most likely find several threads that discuss it when you use the search function, or you can make a new thread.


this article is excellent, and i always link it when new people want to get into breeding:
http://ballpythonbreeder.com/2012/02...thon-breeders/

then, there are several basic morphs that have been around for a while, so these morphs are very well-understood and when you combine them, the results are very predictable because many other people have done it. with spider and het piebald and pastel you already have 3 of these. others would be pinstripe, black pastel, lesser, mojave, fire, enchi, yellowbelly, axanthic, hypo, albino, and a few others. just see which of these genes you like the most, and then you can check out how they would work together with the genes you already have.

a question about the "het leopard pied": there are regular piebalds, where the heterozygous form looks almost completely normal. and then there piebalds where a codominant or dominant gene is somehow stuck to the recessive piebald gene, and here the hets are called leopard, and its quite a dramatic pattern morph, even in the heterozygous form. now im not sure which one you have.

oh, and, welcome to the forum :)

the best morphs to start with are the rare ones!

yeah what's the deal with the Pastel het Leo Pied? pic?


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Breed the ones you like. :gj:

https://scontent-b-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/...b3&oe=530B143F

I bought her from a local reptile breeder. She's a lot brighter than the photo shows.

No Leopard in that Pastel... probably a longshot that it is also a het Pied


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