Is there a point to having normal ball pythons? + breeding question

[Pythonfriend]

Breeding to a normal male might be useful in cases where there is an unproven female morph. The only way to prove it out would be to pair it with a normal.

so... they aren't COMPLETELY useless, but I sure won't be keeping any around I have enough "useless" single gene males! lol

that is not entirely correct, in the case you describe i would go for a male super.

like a super pastel or super lesser or ivory or super fire.

this way you can still tell if the dinker does something genetic or not, because a super male to a normal female produces uniform clutches, and you can also check if it interacts with a known gene complex


EDIT: if the male is a very promising dinker its a different story. otherwise, breeding a normal male really does not make sense. breeding him into many projects in just one year makes even less sense, you could do that with a powerhouse 5-gene male instead.