New Arrivals Question for a Simpleton

[PugLife82]

Hi everyone. New to this forum and so grateful to find it.

We have just picked up two adorable 1 year old, Iris and Albert. We're new to pythons as we just have a 4 year old Amel corn. Although our Dave is a great chap, we wanted to try something a bit chunkier and after a month's of research on care settled for balls.

We got them from someone who had them advertised for rehoming. He had bred them himself and was keeping them to breed from but after having a new baby he decided to sell off his snake and reps collection due to not having space or time anymore. They have been kept in rubs and are right now. We got them yesterday and we have 2 5ft vivs being delivered later today. Both snakes are very inquisitive and fairly active and we are very much enjoying them so far.

My question is on the science-y bit. Having an Amel corn only, we've never looked into genetics properly and, as we just want pets and not breeders, it's not something we've been interested in - for us it's more about if the snake looks nice and if we can care for it properly.

These snakes were sold as:
"Banana Pastel Pied" (male)
"Black Pastel Leopard Butter Het Pied" (female)
No percentages. I don't understand any of this, despite reading explanation posts! Genetics is not my strong point! How do I tell what exactly the parents were so I can look up pictures?

The guy said he was originally keeping them to breed as he said he would have produced some "amazing" morphs. I'm curious as to what these snakes could produce if paired. Because I don't understand genetics and it's not something I need to get in to, other than for the purpose of knowing my own snakes, please talk to me like I'm a 5 year old child and not a 41 year old!

To clarify, we have no intention of breeding these snakes. They are our pets and family members only. We would never consider breeding, even if these weren't our first pythons, as we don't know enough (anything!) about genetics, balls appear to be ten a penny, we couldn't guarantee sales and don't have the space for hatchlings. We're just nosey as the guy made such a big deal about having to rehome them and would like to see some pictures of their possible morphs just out of curiosity.

Sorry for the long first post and apologies for being such a new newbie I can't even get to grips with basic genetics but with just keeping a simple Amel corn we've never really had to be curious before!

Thanks so much in advance.

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