Congrats, very nice clutch. Does the killer have a ringer? The pattern looks distorted towards the tail. Correction on your odds it's a 1 in 8 chance of hitting a killer or sterling when a pewter or bee is bred to a pastel.
Wow Bill!!! You've been having great luck this year!!!!! You must've been makin sacrifices to the ball gods or somethin'!!!!!
ALL THAT SLITHERS - Ball Python aficionado/keeper
breeder of African soft fur Rats. Keeper of other small exotic mammals.
10 sugar gliders
2 tenrecs
5 jumping spiders
paludarium with fish
Brisingr the albino
Snowy the BEL
Piglet the albino conda hognose
FINALLY got my BEL,no longer breeding snakes. married to mechnut450..
Congrats, very nice clutch. Does the killer have a ringer? The pattern looks distorted towards the tail. Correction on your odds it's a 1 in 8 chance of hitting a killer or sterling when a pewter or bee is bred to a pastel.
You are correct on the odds. The 1 in 16 was factoring both genders. I.E. -- If the eighth egg was a female, you would statistically have to go to egg 16 to get the male -- in theory.
The Killer has a very "scattered" pattern over the last third of his body. Kind of looks "Pinstripish". Maybe that is how a ringer presents on a Killer? Thanks for the kind words.
Wow Bill!!! You've been having great luck this year!!!!! You must've been makin sacrifices to the ball gods or somethin'!!!!!
The end of my year has been pretty great. Between this clutch, the Butter Belly clutch -- and in between those two I hatched a couple Fireflies which proved a captive hatched Fire male.
I have had a few "rough" clutches as well. A Bee x Pastel clutch of six eggs produced 2 Normals, 3 male Pastels, and a Killer Bee that was mildly kinked, didn't fully absorb his yolk, and died in the egg. I made the mistake of popping HIM!!!! Of course it was a male!! I guess it does even out in the end. I have learned during my first year breeding not to count your morphs/combos before they are hatched.
Best of luck to everyone in the upcoming season!!!
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Originally Posted by sdbabybird
A Bee x Pastel clutch of six eggs produced 2 Normals, 3 male Pastels, and a Killer Bee that was mildly kinked, didn't fully absorb his yolk, and died in the egg. I made the mistake of popping HIM!!!! Of course it was a male!! I guess it does even out in the end.