Question about morphs and genders.

[Pythonfriend]

this article is good:

http://ballpythonbreeder.com/2012/02...thon-breeders/

i suggest getting two females now, and a two-gene male one year later. that is assuming you buy hatchlings, and raise them up.

you can breed one male to several females. so while in an individual pairing it makes absolutely no difference which parent snake contributes what, since you breed one male to lets say 3 females, the male should be the one with the genes.

also, males reach sexual maturity much faster than females do. there is round about 1 year difference.

so when you actually breed, you will realize that a spider female or a pastel female really make long-term sense for breeding, its nice single-gene females, never bad to have those. but both a male spider or a male pastel will become useless rather rapidly.

a plan could be: get a pastel female and a spider female, and one year later maybe a pastave male (pastel + mojave), or a lemonblast male (pinstripe + pastel), or something like that. that way you can get your bumblebee, and also lots of other stuff, including stuff with 3 genes. having good males is important, and here it helps that they are also cheaper and mature much faster.

or get a bumble bee male. you can breed that one to a normal female, the results would be identical to the results you get from breeding spider to pastel. except that you can replace the normal female with maybe a black pastel female or fire female or whatever, and make the results even better.

simplified down to a little rule of thumb: the job of the females is to make the eggs, the job of the males is to make sure these eggs have the best possible content.