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

[Kaorte]

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.

You say my statement isn't correct, yet you follow it up with an opinion.

There is no right and wrong here. If you want to breed a male normal then go for it. I am just presenting a hypothetical scenario in which a normal male might be useful for a breeder.

I doubt Brian Barczyk bred his first sunset ball python to a super like you describe. That wouldn't make any sense for him. He wants to single out ONE gene to determine if its genetic.

It would be very silly to try and prove out a new genetic mutation with a super animal. That is just my opinion, clearly yours differs. That does not make either of us CORRECT or INCORRECT.