Pros and Cons

http://ballpythonbreeder.com/2012/02...thon-breeders/ <--- very good read


i would say breed the lesser to both females, and hope for a lesser pastel male to replace your lesser male.

to put it bluntly, i think your collection has too many males while at the same time males that are genetically more powerful than the females are missing.

but then, there is no right or wrong as long as the animals are well cared for and bring you joy, this is merely a question of more effective versus less effective. And that only has meaning if you care about making money with the BPs you produce.

basically, if money is not an issue, just disregard my comment and the article i linked.

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Originally Posted by Pythonfriend

http://ballpythonbreeder.com/2012/02...thon-breeders/ <--- very good read


i would say breed the lesser to both females, and hope for a lesser pastel male to replace your lesser male.

to put it bluntly, i think your collection has too many males while at the same time males that are genetically more powerful than the females are missing.

but then, there is no right or wrong as long as the animals are well cared for and bring you joy, this is merely a question of more effective versus less effective. And that only has meaning if you care about making money with the BPs you produce.

basically, if money is not an issue, just disregard my comment and the article i linked.

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Thanks for that article! I know I have quite a basic lineup. Like you said, I should be trying to replace the single gene male with a double gene and start getting a better male lineup. It's just hard getting there when I'm starting from the ground up with single gene snakes.

Either pairing you do you can't go wrong. It depends on what YOU are looking to do. You can't go wrong with either a Super Pastel or a Pastel Lesser in your future breeding projects. You could get a Pastel Lesser male breed him back to mom get a nice Super Pastel Lesser if the odds are good to you. With a Super Pastel like I stated earlier it will mean that all future breedings of that snake will give you at a minimum all pastels plus a chance for 2 or 3 genes animals depending what your breeding it to. Good luck and just remember you cant go wrong either way.

I think I'm going with the Lesser Pastel then breeding back. Thanks for everyones advice!

if breeding goes well, you can hold back maybe some double-gene stuff, be it super pastel or pastel lesser.

and you can sell all the other hatchlings and maybe one of your current males.

and then you can buy cheaper male hatchlings that do have two genes, pastave or bee or lemonblast or firefly are not expensive anymore. also a male visual albino is inexpensive to get, for your het girl, a visual male to het female pairing doubles your chances to get visuals, and the rest will be 100% hets instead of 66% possible hets.

and then next season you will already produce lots of nice two-gene stuff, maybe some triple gene combos, more stuff that sells well and more nice holdbacks.

thats what my battle plan would be with this starting stock. you can give your next season some real drive with 2-gene males that cost less than 300 dollars each, and you have good chances to make that money if you get lucky and get eggs this season.

no matter if you want to grow your collection, or if you want to keep it below 10 adult BPs permanently, trying to improve genetic quality from season to season really pays off.