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    Best match to breed

    Looking to breed i have a male albino ball what do you feel would be best ti breed? would like to produce albino spider but open to all ideas if albino spider better to just get female albino spider or spider het albino?

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    Honest opinion? Don't breed unless you are already experienced breeding or have a number of people lined up for snakes. You're going to produce 8-16ish ball pythons over a 3-4 year project to get an animal you could just go get right now while looking for something to breed it to. Best case scenario you get a Het Albino Something to breed it to and end up with a 25% chance to produce an Albino Something. You end up with 4-8 snakes, meaning averages have you getting 1-2 Albino Something, realistically you may need to breed multiple times. You are now rehoming a bunch of snakes in a saturated market without experience breeding or selling. You're going to find yourself with more animals than you intended on having.

    Just go get an Albino Spider and enjoy having 2 different albino snakes without needing to find homes for a bunch of extra snakea
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    Re: Best match to breed

    Quote Originally Posted by Oxylepy View Post
    Honest opinion? Don't breed unless you are already experienced breeding or have a number of people lined up for snakes. You're going to produce 8-16ish ball pythons over a 3-4 year project to get an animal you could just go get right now while looking for something to breed it to. Best case scenario you get a Het Albino Something to breed it to and end up with a 25% chance to produce an Albino Something. You end up with 4-8 snakes, meaning averages have you getting 1-2 Albino Something, realistically you may need to breed multiple times. You are now rehoming a bunch of snakes in a saturated market without experience breeding or selling. You're going to find yourself with more animals than you intended on having.

    Just go get an Albino Spider and enjoy having 2 different albino snakes without needing to find homes for a bunch of extra snakea
    i completley understand and respect what your saying. i am in no way looking to breed balls for income actually just wanted to breed once to experience it i am more into having a variety of snakes as whole as collection not breeding for business

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    Re: Best match to breed

    Royal Constrictors design has a albino spider female $250 in fact I think he has them marked down right now get guy


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    Re: Best match to breed

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    Personal preference: I don't think the adult albino spiders or pinstripes look all that great. The pattern gets swallowed up and they just look yellow with no visual interest. Clown or pied is where I'd go, even though it's a double recessive project.

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    Albino Black Pastel or Albino Mojave are solid choices that won't be as expensive as a double recessive animal and the patterns look really great.

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