Snakes and Stones

[Lord Sorril]

Photo #300

Clown ball python with some more Rubellite and a big chunk of tumbled Milky Quartz.

Photo #300 makes 300 individual ball python specimens shown.

For my 2023 season:
I have 45 mature females allocated for mating.
With 1:1 Matings I only expect ~50% to actually produce eggs.
So, that is about 22 clutches of eggs, around 6 eggs/clutch-so I'm expecting ~130 offspring for the season (barring any unforeseen issues).

I am excited to introduce my Pastel Blade Het Clown male into my collection of Het Clown females.
It will be interesting to see first-hand the impact of the Blade gene on the patterning of the inherited Clown offspring of my line.

Since I have a variety of genes in my collection: I was trying to figure out what morphs I should target for 2023...
I looked back in my records from about 8 years ago and I had wrote down a list morphs I thought were pretty cool.
This year I am breeding towards these goals that I set long ago-some of the offspring will be one step forward, and others should complete some of these projects (hopefully).

Wish me luck for 2023!