I recently purchased (3 months ago from a reputable breeder) an albino spider female ball python as a pet for my youngest daughter and now my oldest daughter wants one as well. They want to experience breeding, incubating eggs etc. I have experience breeding snakes (I bred chondros and others years ago in high school) but I am new to the morph stuff. I have heard the spider gene is tricky and can create issues when bread to certain other traits.
We are looking for what would be considered the best partner to breed to this female as far as valuable and healthy babies. We are currently thinking an albino pinstripe male would be a good option to make albino spinner babies. Is this a good idea? Any other suggestions?
Our female is currently 600g (still a little small for breeding), she is a healthy eater, great disposition and absolutely no wobble what so ever. The only issues I would say she has are she has very little contrast, almost looks solid yellow and she has very poor aim when she strikes (while eating). She does not wobble like some describe, she is very still but just flat out misses her target quite often. Maybe its that I am used to arboreal snakes and they are somehow more accurate? Maybe that is normal or maybe it is part of that spider genetic flaw.
Thank you in advance for any helpful info
Joe