I had one pastel male breed a female probably 10 times (visual lock ups) and as time went and females were ovulating this one female just didn't look like anything was going on. I threw a cinnamon male in with her and 1 lockup later I could tell she took so I thought I'd be seeing pastels but....7 eggs...5 cinnamons. You just have to observe your snakes and their behaviors to really get breeding right. It takes trial and error, the error always sucks but you learn not to do that again!