Hey guys. I wanted to post some info about one of my newer projects that I have big plans for this year. The Charcoal project was just recently listed on World of Ball Pythons and I am super excited about that!

Here is the background on the project:

In 2007 I acquired an odd African Yellowbelly male ball python. I noticed immediately that he had some of the most extreme blushing I had seen as well as a very prominent blackback. At first he was a problem snake and would not breed anything for me in 2007. In the fall 2008, he bred to 3 females and in 2009 I hatched yellowbellies, blackback, yellowbelly blackbacks and normals. Only one female blackback was produced in 2009.I kept everything and still have the animals in my collection today. In 2011 and 2012, I had the same breeding results using the original male as well as one of his yellowbelly blackback sons. In 2013, the only female blackback that was breeding size had 3 eggs. I bred her to one of the blackbacks I produced in 2009. I hatched one normal, one blackback, and one super from this clutch.

In 2013, I also bred the original male to a mojave female and hatched out blackback mojaves, blackback yellowbelly mojaves, and blackbacks. After seeing this combo I decided to call the blackback, Charcoal and have used the name since then.

Charcoal Mojo YB


Charcoal




Super Charcoal



Charcoal Mojo


Thanks for checking it out! Also, I have a new website and blog up at http://charcoalballpython.com/ with a lot of topics. Make sure to check out and give me your feed back!

Thanks, Peter vonLehe Ruegner