OPINION: Breeding several males to one female?

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Originally Posted by serpentes

He is one of the coolest guys I have ever had the pleasure of working with :)

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Wow! lucky you..some of you guys have awsome collections..I'm new to ball pythons but hope to create some nice things over the years..its intresting stuff..watch all Henry & others clips as I try to gather info..some amazing morphs being created :)

I'm low on breeding-sized females right now, so I've introduced them each to my four big boys - the pastel, mojave, black pastel & spider. Only the pastel has been witnessed locking, so I'm mostly expecting a bunch of pastels. ;) Not sure about the odds of a split clutch, but that sure would be awesome!!

becareful in what you breed to a female. I know a breeder who breed a male fire and a male super pastel to a female pastel. it took some time to figure out if it was a firefly (fire x pastel) or a very good looking super pastel. he thought it was a firefly but he wasn't 100% sure at first. So when breeding like this, make sure you use males that you will be able to tell the hatchlings apart. this breeder been breeding for years and fireflies were still very new and not many, he was correct with it being a firefly but at first he wasn't 100 %

Also, when breeding multiple males with a female I'd suggest only using co-dom/dom morphs.


If you throw a het/visual recessive male in with a female and other males with her as well you'll never know which animals are poss. het/hets even if there isn't evidence of multiple fathers:

For examble, you bred a pied to the female but there was also a pastel male put with her. It is possible that even if there are no pastels in the clutch, that some of the normals are actually sired by him. Therefore (imo) you couldn't saftely say the clutch was 100% het pied.