I need your help! First time breeding Ball Pythons

[Caspian]

So, that baby looks like a Super Pastel?

To me? Honestly, it doesn't, but I didn't comment on the possibilities because I don't know how to identify them yet. I just know that my girl - in my avatar - was sold to me as a Super Pastel, and it doesn't look much like her. But I do know that there can be a wide variety of patterns in a single morph, so again - for all I know, it could be. Has the mother ever been exposed, and possibly bred to, a different male snake, while you had her? And was she a baby when you got her, eliminating the chance that someone might have exposed her before then? If she was a baby, and she's never been exposed to the possibility of another male breeding with her, then those two pretty much have to be the parents.


Edit - I just looked back and found where you stated that the female was a hatchling when you got her. That means that, if she was never exposed to a different male during that time who might have locked with her, that the genetics have GOT to come from those two snakes. It eliminates the chance of retained sperm.