Undecided about breeding and genetics

I would definitely not get a male with the same genes as the female UNLESS you wanted to make supers. Take the opportunity to get some different genes to add in. A pastel combo would give you the ability for superpastel combos, so anything with pastel would be useful.

It is what you like, what would excite you to see in an egg? If you breed for love of ball pythons, you can never go wrong.

And dont make it about profits you'll be sorely disappointed

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Originally Posted by mamaofporter

Now I'm toying with the idea of a banana to add value to the clutch....

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For a beginner breeder I would not be going after value. Like I said before, I'm starting to expand my collection as well, but I'm starting kind of small on the price scale. Building my own racks, purchasing snakes that appeal to me but come in at under 200 dollars to start, that sort of thing. I would be thrilled to have a banana to start my breeding collection with, but that's simply out of my price range, and I'm not comfortable at all risking a 500 dollar plus snake when I honestly don't have the feel for breeding just yet. Will I be looking at buying one after I've produced a few clutches and know what I'm doing? Absolutely! Love the color, love the look, flinch at the price. I'm just really worried at this point that I'll make some kind of rookie mistake with an incubator, and if that happens god help me if a banana clutch has to get tossed.

If you have the money to buy one and are comfortable taking such a huge risk at the start, I suppose nothing is really stopping you, but breeding snakes or any animals shouldn't really be about value.