considering breeding this season

so true. if you got a double gene female you would have less chance of normals and hold back one or two

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Good luck with breeding, wish you the best.

Go for it, have fun I wish you the best. I will warn you they are additive.I started with one BP on a Monday, that weekend I went to a reptile show and bought three more. There are so many morphs that I want and want to make. So I will be breeding to feed my addiction.:)

I've been cruising worldofballpythons.net and their big morph list and it's insane how many morphs of ball python there I mean holy crap, I don't think I've even looked through half of them. There are so many I'd love to own so I think after this first clutch of whatever I happen to produce I will be addicted.

male normals are pets ... Nobody in their right mind would breed a normal to a queenbee female when you could buy a simple $50 pastel male and make killer queenbee's, and more queenbees, and super pastels, and so on.
A male normal will bring nothing to the table when it comes to breeding, so they are basically pets.

First off, good luck with your breeding project! Second, I'd have to agree with the majority here. If I were in your position I would start off with a simple single gene male like a pastel or spider, and a nice single or double gene female. Keep the normal as a pet, nothing wrong with that! We bred a male het ghost to a huge normal female last year, just to get the experience of a clutch, as none of our other females were up to weight. We ended up with a bunch of pet quality normals that we sold as just that, pets. This year we have whos your daddy clutches from mojave, pastel, spider males to pinstripe and normal females. Next season we will be trying for pieds along with some other wicked combos. Start simple but definitely think about taking the normal out of the equation. Nothing wrong with it per se, just more bang for the buck is all.

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Thanks for the advice and I don't plan on doing more than just my first clutch with the normal. Next season I plan on having a single or multi gene male and another female so that I can take that male to both the females, who knows maybe I'll keep a male out of whatever morph I decide to go with this time and he'll be my next breeder. But at the moment I want the experience I know the normals will just be pets from a business stand point, but at the moment for me even normals will be worth it for the experience. I know that probably sounds weird, but that's how I had worked out in my crazy head lol :P

I see no problem with what you are trying to do. You have stated numerous times that it is just for the experience. I have seen people on here that have taken normal x normal pairings. For the experience. Some people on here look for the "pay out" or what's the best bang for the buck. You are looking for a suggestion for the experience I would suggest a pastel or spider.

Thank you, speaking of pastels what is the difference between a lemon pastel and a "normal" pastel? Is it a different gene or is it a allelic to pastel?