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[Daigga]

As far as the morph question goes, they both look normal to me. I own four normals, one being het for albino (which has no visible markers), and while 3 of the four are really dark due to my own personal preferences, my lightest girl has similar dorsal striping to yours. There isn't anything wrong with that now, as every female ball python has a place in a breeding collection. Normal males, not so much. Not that big of a deal, since a multiple gene male can be had for crazy low prices (economics and what have you. TL;DR they're cheaper than females).

Now, as for breeding, which I don't remember if I've chimed in here or not, i would like to point out that the startup cost of a proper breeding setup is not cheap. I'm not totally familiar with what you have as a setup, but it looks like you have the male living with the female? If that's true (and forgive me for saying anything if it isn't) you will need a separate setup for him for when he isn't breeding. Besides some basic husbandry issues that go along with keeping two snakes together so closely, I'm pretty sure the male with quit breeding her after leaving him in there so long, or end up starving himself because he won't quit breeding her (both bad scenarios).

You'll also want an incubator and a place to keep any babies. I suggest a rack at this point, I know there are some blueprints that allow for multiple sizes of tubs in a single system. To give you some idea of price, a simple incubator costs around 70 to 130 dollars (They go higher, but these are the affordable models for people on a budget like you and me). I built a seven slot adult rack for about 200 all things included and am planning on building a multi size rack here very soon. If you're serious about wanting to breed, i would also say budget about 100 dollars for a good male and shop around for some good deals (I paid 100 for a yearling lesser bee and only 75 for a juvenile cinnapin, there are great deals out there!). Plus the cost of food, which is a fairly dramatic factor. You can bulk order and freeze, which comes out to about 50 cents to a dollar per week on hatchlings and about 1.50 a week for adults per week not including shipping (~30$). Buying at local petstores is much more expensive (about double that).

Now, not all of this has to be done at once. I've probably thrown 2000 dollars at my collection and all considered upkeep since August of last year, though I haven't paid more than 200 dollars at once at any given time (usually much less. I also think I have more snakes than you're intending to get). You know how much this will cost now, are you still interested in breeding? If so, first things first; Perfect your husbandry. Take the advice people are offering, and try to swallow the bad with the good. No matter how people choose to word it, the members here ultimately have the best interests of the snakes in mind. Hatchling pythons are not sturdy. Knowing how much all of this is, losing hatchlings is something you do not want to happen (for a variety of reasons, but we're focusing on the monetary aspect right now and a dead hatchling is money down the toilet).

It takes some space, it takes a lot of money, it takes a ton of time. Are you 100% sure this is what you want to do?