thoughts on starting breeding

[Pythonman]

Eternal my thoughts are this...breeding balls is fun, thats why i do and I imagine that's why most do it. For whatever reason alot of people like to make it seem like a job. Its not like bearded dragons where you will be saddled with a ton of babies and nothing to do with them. If you want to try it, try it! Just make sure you're taking care of your animals. Alot of the stuff you need can be built affordably or bought used as well. If you get a female or two by the time they're raised to 1500 grams you will know what it takes to care for ball pythons, you will know if you want 10-16 more, if you can afford it then do it. My guess is you'll get the bug like most of us and go from there. It doesn't mean you have to become one of the people who build enormous businesses around them and exploit the species. Make a couple babies and have fun! People forget that in this industry. Just keep your normal male...you'll be happy about it later. He's the one that started it all.....

[eternalfrost]

thanks for the input guys. good old punnet squares haha caps=dominant small=recessive

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is there any list of morphs with pics and wich are dominant, recessive, and codominant?

[Pythonman]

I love the NERD site if you cant tell...it gives really good descriptions....click here http://www.newenglandreptile.com/ner...=543&Itemid=76

Its their new site...really good!

[PythonWallace]

I would get a female mojave or pastel. Once you raise her up you can breed her to your male and hatch out a few more co-doms. Then you raise up one of the males and breed him back to your female and you can hatch out a super pastel or a blue eyed leucistic.