Second season is underway...and it's small, but exciting

So last year, thanks to this site and all I've learned about BPs, my wife and I hatched two wonderful clutches from our Lesser girls paired with our Crystal boy. All 12 babies were healthy and we kept two and sold the rest.

This year some of our other project snakes are finally reaching maturity and we have a few great projects. The first (and most exciting) is our Dreamsicle project. Currently, we have one female Dreamsicle who is finally up to size (she had previously been a mouser, but is now eating rats), along with two males, one lavender 66% het pied and one pied 66% het lavender. We're pairing the pied with our Dreamsicle and the lavender with a normal het pied female to try and prove out the males. We started the pairing of the lavender and het pied back in November and just had an ovulation, so hopefully we'll be seeing some eggs soon (possibly a lot of eggs as our het pied girl is 2800 grams). We just got our first lock with our pied and Dreamsicle, so the waiting begins with those two.

We're also breeding our new Enchi GHI boy to my prized pet Quorra, my second BP and a very sweet coral glow. We haven't had a lock yet, but hopefully it will happen soon.

Lastly, we are breeding our Crystal male again to our lesser girls, who have both bulked back up to close to 2000 grams each and are still eating like pigs. We just started pairing, so it may be a while before we have eggs.

Anyways, thanks for all the past help and I'll be updating this thread as our second year breeding progresses.

And now, some pics:

https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach..._214934-X2.jpg

https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach..._152007-X2.jpg

More to come of the others...

Good luck with your pairings


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Best of luck :)

very nice! that's almost a full wine cooler incubator worth of pairings/eggs. Dreamsicle's and BEL's are always awesome but the Enchi GHI x Coral Glow is super exciting to me. may the odd's gods be ever in your favor! :) :gj:

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very nice! that's almost a full wine cooler incubator worth of pairings/eggs. Dreamsicle's and BEL's are always awesome but the Enchi GHI x Coral Glow is super exciting to me. may the odd's gods be ever in your favor! :) :gj:

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I'm also very excited about this. Our Enchi GHI is on the young side (he's 11 months now, though pretty big) so I think he is lacking the swagger to woo our CG girl. He certainly is trying and peeing everywhere, but so far this is what it looks like when we pair them:

https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach..._173431-X2.jpg

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Originally Posted by treaux

I'm also very excited about this. Our Enchi GHI is on the young side (he's 11 months now, though pretty big) so I think he is lacking the swagger to woo our CG girl. He certainly is trying and peeing everywhere, but so far this is what it looks like when we pair them:

https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach..._173431-X2.jpg

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LOL

him "I don't wanne"

her "go away!"

This girl is looking awfully big and appears to be glowing:

https://photos.smugmug.com/Snake-Bre..._003719-X5.jpg

Well, a whopping 49 days after Sonia's pre-lay shed, she finally laid the eggs. I wonder if there was something off with her that led to such a delay. We got 5 good eggs and 4 slugs, which is a little disappointing. Here's hoping that at least one of the five will hatch out as a pied het lavender! If not, I'll have a bunch of het lav poss het pieds, which isn't bad. Total weight of the good eggs (though with one slug attached still as it was stuck under the pile) is 700 grams. Now the countdown begins!

Here's pics:

https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach..._104632-XL.jpg

https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach..._104703-XL.jpg

https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach..._105329-XL.jpg

Good luck with your clutch

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Haven't had much to post about lately as things are not all that exciting currently. Update on our first clutch is that it hasn't been great. One candled bad from the start and another died a few days ago for reasons unknown, so we're just down to 3. Doesn't leave great odds for proving out our Lav Albino ph pied considering the female is also just het for pied. Who knows though, we could get lucky and have a pied in one of those eggs!

We've had some more locks and our Enchi GHI finally got it done with our Coral Glow. She and the other ladies are all still slamming rats and building and hopefully we'll see some more ovulations soon. Our new girl Kara (unknown BEL complex) also locked with our Crystal stud, so we'll see what comes out of that match up. She's a virgin and well over 3000 grams so we're hoping for some great BEL complex snakes.

Anyways, our 3 remaining eggs are due to hatch around June 10th so we'll at least have an update by then. Fingers crossed! Here are a couple pics of our recent locks:

https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...9_073433-M.jpg https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...0_072838-M.jpg

Good luck


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best o'luck on the eggs and congrats on the new locks.

BTW is your CG the friendly one the comes over for a pet when u open the T8? haha i remember that. i was like i wish my BP was more puppy-like too.

How exciting! :D

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best o'luck on the eggs and congrats on the new locks.

BTW is your CG the friendly one the comes over for a pet when u open the T8? haha i remember that. i was like i wish my BP was more puppy-like too.

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Yeah, she's the same one. She was my second BP. Our new giant BEL girl is the same way. She was a pet and got a lot of attention and has zero fear of humans. Unfortunately her owner loved her so much that he overfed her and she's way overweight (around 3200 grams at just 3 years old). Hopefully she won't have any medical issues because she's extremely fun to handle (more like a boa than a ball python).

More disappointment. One out of our remaining three eggs died with just 10 days left until hatch day. I cut the other two just in case and they both appear to be alive and well. Sadly, the one that died may have been a piebald, thus proving our Lavender Albino 66% het pied who we had bred to our het piebald girl. It appeared to have a white body with a dark head, though the body was deformed and wouldn't uncurl when I tried to pull it out of the egg. The remaining two appear to be normals (that will be het for lavender albino and 50% het for pied).

This clutch was a gamble, but I'm pretty sure out Lavender albino boy is het for pied. May keep him as a backup and prove him out later. I'm not sure what went wrong with the clutch. Our het pied was a relatively new arrival and was just out of quarantine when we started pairing her, so maybe she just wasn't fully settled yet. Anyways, here's to the two survivors!

So sadly the entire first clutch was a bust. One of the remaining two came out missing an eye and with a deformed lip. We'll see if she is able to eat, but I'm not that hopeful for her. The last remaining egg was horribly kinked and deformed and was unable to get its head out from the egg, so it died. Only positive side to this was I'm fairly certain one of the eggs that died prior to hatching had a piebald in it (was a distinctly white body with a normal pattern head), which means that my lavender boy is definitely het for pied. We'll give Sonia some extra time off before trying to breed her again.

Did you have temperature issues with your incubator? Sounds like something went awry with the incubator to me.

So sorry to hear about the troubles you are having, wishing you nothing but the best, healing hugs from across the miles :tears:

My incubator is rock solid and egg tub was a constant 89 degrees and 100% humidity the whole time. No water got on the eggs either. Not sure what caused it to fail. In fact the only survivor came out a weird looking boob egg. The last good looking egg wad horribly kinked.