Purely by chance, two of the three males I purchased to breed happened to have some paradox markings. The more I look at them, the more I love this weird phenomenon. Does anyone have any experience producing or breeding paradoxes? Most of the information I'm finding is just showing that it's totally random, but some people seem to think your odds of producing a paradox is higher if the parents have it.

On a similar note, I have heard of the chimera theory regarding paradoxing. Are the odds of producing twins random in ball pythons, or could it be argued that it's genetic?

Some pictures of my paradox boys;

Dexter, who was in shed at the time of this photo. He's shed out now and is a real beauty.


Edward. Not as noticeable (especially in poor lighting and camera phone quality), but he has a double tail ringer. The ringer near the end of his tail is a lot more noticeable than the one a bit father up.

Neither of these two are up to a good breeding size yet. Can't wait to see what they produce for me