Making a new morph for the community

Wow, I think you might be getting carried away on the genetics thing. I know of people breeding mojave to lesser for 3 years and not getting a BEL, and that's a 1 in 4! Did you say you haven't even bought the females? Do you intend to buy breeder sized females? The take 2-3 years to sexually mature.

Yes im going to have to now that i already have the males. but for what i paid for them I could sale them and easily get my money back then buy the females and rebuy the males when they get up to size. How long are the males good too breed once they get up to breeding weight. If I get the females now will the males still be good to breed in 2-3 when the females are ready. I dont keep any of my pets like breeders they are all in vivariums so I wouldnt have a problem raising the males as just pets with the females untill every1 is ready.

and if it takes 5 years to hit it but im still the 1st 1 to hit my goal will be acomplished. I want to make my mark and give a new morph to the Ball Python community not make money.

Understand that you are competing with people who have tons of animals, 3, 4 , 5 genes combos and that are very much ahead of you. Producing something new is not as easy as it seems, yes breeding calculator are great but you could be YEARS away from your goal (animals not wanting to breed, slugs, DOA etc things happen)

Being excited is great but set small goals, one step at the time and if you happen to produce a first then great, but if you get too excited and think it's just that easy you will be very disappointed if things don't go your way.

That comes from someone that sets small goals, and take one step at the time.

First get a female ready to breed and produce your first clutch and see are you like it. Then produce what you like but don't put the carriage before the horses :gj:

The odds...they are not with you...

My advise: find a combo you like, and work on producing that...you'll be much happier in the end...

I already have done that I have a pair of normal BPs het for ghost that will be ready this year. My goal on them ist just produce a healthy clutch and hatch them properly.

These are the combos I like.
How many genes can be stacked on 1 BP and how many has some1 stacked to this day. Im guessing NERD has that record.

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Originally Posted by Snatantula

I already have done that I have a pair of normal BPs het for ghost that will be ready this year. My goal on them ist just produce a healthy clutch and hatch them properly.

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And there's your first mistake...working with hets. You will not be first, plain and simple...sorry...:)

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Originally Posted by Snatantula

These are the combos I like.
How many genes can be stacked on 1 BP and how many has some1 stacked to this day. Im guessing NERD has that record.

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Too many to be able to tell...people are beginning to guess at this point...5,6,7,8, etc and things start to get muddy and it begins to be impossible to pick out what genes are present...

And there's your first mistake...working with hets. You will not be first, plain and simple...sorry...

LOL not my final clutch after shes proven ill be saleing her.