To the best of my knowledge, there can be more than one father in a clutch of snakes. The first one may have been shooting blanks, for all you know. When I've bred snakes, I never paired any with more than one male, but this is what I've read in various places.
My "problem" has been that a snake that mated once "accidentally" kept laying fertile eggs from that magic mating for a total of FIVE years (the first year plus four more thereafter)! Snakes are full of surprises. And they're "sneaky"-
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