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    It doesn't look like you have any hides in those enclosures... You really should look into putting some in. Just a cheap plastic flower pot bottom with an opening cut into it will work, but if they don't have anywhere to hide and really feel secure they'll be stressed. If you want to breed, you don't want stressed snakes. That can lead to them refusing to breed or complications once the female is gravid. Fake plants like what you can get from walmart laying on the floor of the cage make the snakes feel safer as well.

    Also, your third snake is het pied right? Your others are normals. Lizardlicks already mentioned this, but there is NO WAY for you to get pied by breeding a het pied with a normal. ALL of the babies from that litter will be normals; that is 100% certain. Of those babies, only half will be het pied like the parent, and there is no way to tell which ones have this gene just by looking at them. To get a pied, you'd have to take one of the het pied babies (keep in mind you won't be able to tell which babies are and are not het pied), raise it, and breed it back to the het pied parent. If you did that, 25% of the babies from that litter would be pied, 50% would be het pied but look normal, and 25% would be completely normal (and again you won't be able to tell which are het pied and which are normal).
    I just wanted to reiterate this, because I don't think you'd want to be stuck with a litter of babies that you can't sell (As the market is, a possible het pied is going to basically be treated as a normal, so the max you'd get would be $40-60 for one. Plus, most people who are buying normals are getting them from pet stores and not really looking at private breeders).

    Not trying to be a buzzkill, but it's just genetically impossible to get what you're hoping for by pairing those snakes together.

    EDIT: I didn't realize your new snake was a pastel. The genetic stuff I said is still the same, but 50% of the babies should be pastel and 50% normal looking. Still no chance for pieds though.
    Last edited by DVirginiana; 07-18-2015 at 11:46 PM.
    3.0 Thamnophis sirtalis,
    1.1 Thamnophis cyrtopsis ocellatus
    0.1 Python regius
    1.0 Litorea caerulea
    0.1 Ceratophrys cranwelli
    0.1 Terrapene carolina
    0.1 Grammostola rosea
    0.1 Hogna carolinensis
    0.0.1 Brachypelma smithi

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