Breeding with a notmal

Sorry for my lack of knowledge... But this is for a much further time but is there a morph that can bred with a normal bp to produce some sort of baby that is visually different than a normal?

Thanks!

Yes, in fact normals are good to prove out multi-gene snakes so you can tell what genes are in the mix. If you breed a single gene with a normal you'll get 50:50 normal / single gene. For example a pinstripe x normal = half pinstripe and half normal baby snakes. If you breed a super to a normal you won't get any normals, for example a super yellowbelly (also called an 'Ivory') x normal = 100% yellowbelly babies. Some people will pick up high end male with six or seven genes and get a bunch of cheap normal females to produce a lot of really cool babies on the cheap. You can play around with the genetics on this website, I spend a lot of time here with different combos:

http://www.worldofballpythons.com/wizard/

You could also buy a snake that has a super gene with a mix of other genes and cross it with a normal, you'll get a whole bunch of different snakes and no normals at all. If you have a male normal you can still breed with a female, but usually one male can breed with up to 3 or 4 females so it's better to have a normal female. I actually have a normal male ball python that I got for free, couldn't pass it up. I may breed it with one of my snakes that is pastel / spider / possible yellow belly / possible het pied. If I breed it with a normal I'll be able to tell for sure if it has yellowbelly in it. I also have a male pied that I can cross with it to see if it actually is het pied (was 66% odds for het pied). I really like to have mostly single gene snakes, that way I can prove out some of my more complex gene mixes. And when I cross my snakes together with one or two genes it's pretty easy to tell what genes are in the babies instead of guessing.

All of the "co-dom" morphs will produce some babies that look like the co-dom parent. Recessive traits will not. So you want to look up any co-dom morphs.

Some to start you off with; spider*, pinstripe*, pastel, lesser, mojave, cinnamon and black pastel. All of these should give some babies that look like the co-dom parent, while some will be normals like the other parent.

*spider and pinstripes are not "regular" co-doms, but they will still act the same, in giving you some babies that look like the morph parent.

There are many others, but these can get you started off.

This is excellent info. Thanks so much for the info!!