Poor mans ball python morph Hets

A tid bit on producing a ball python morph at a bargain price !

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Pets & Animals

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• ball
• python
• morph
• clown
• het
• breeder
• reptile
• snake
• contest

[Westcoastpythons]

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[pvdgod27]

Not sure why you have to buy the whole clutch, you can just buy a 100% het female. If you use a clown for example, you can get a male and female 100% het clown for about 450 bucks and you are sure to produce clowns and you have a lot less mouths to feed and clean. Plus what if all of the 50% hets dont prove out, then youve just spent years and tons of money feeding snakes that may not produce what you want.

[Mikeint0sh]

surely buying a 100% het pair would be cheaper then getting a single 100% and a clutch of 50%

[GandDsnakes]

sorry but u need to be corrected. I Get my females to breeder sizes suring the off season meaning from when they hath=ch to the begging of the next season I have my females ready to breed. All my 2010 babies were ready to breed 2011. And by the looks of it my 2011 will be ready by 2012. So dont know what to tell u. # years is crzy.

[decensortive911]

@decensortive911 its cheaper to buy the morph you want..

[decensortive911]

hmm.. I disagree with this advice. Base morphs are generally inexpensive. You also have to factor in the cost of feeding those possible hets for 3 years. Now you have the possibility of having 50% of the breeding project as hets, and 50% as nothing but normals. If your breeding them all you have a 75%+ chance of hitting nothing but normals.. Now you have (lets say based on 3 breeding pairs at 6 eggs/clutch) 12 eggs, at least 9 of them will be normals that you have to feed..

[NaturesJewels]

It did make me smile but I think it was because I felt more dumber.

[ReptiColors]

every time i watch this vid it makes me laugh

[oobbydoo]

also woopsreptiles, keeping 2 snakes in the same viv is not good practice unless its breeding season and your breeding them...and even then the male and females should be seperated after locking has occured. And keeping 2 differnt species in viv together is seriously wrong...boas are south american and require humid conditions and python regius are African and come from a totally different climate..aside from climate there are many other reasons not to keep them together endoparasites being one.

[oobbydoo]

@woopsreptiles There is nothingwrong with breeding males in 10 months, but breeding females beloew the 3 year age is not good for the snake. It can greatly effect thier health and the reproductivity, in some reptiles breeding them early can result in the first clutch being the onlly clutch they lay 'ever'.. The females body goes through huge amounts of stress during breeding...and in fact many breeders will wait 5 years to breed certain species..

[woopsreptiles]

@leomes397 it means------ for example, say you got a pied and you breed it to , say a pastel spider anything , you'll get pastels spiders or normals that carries the gene for pied. there for being called het for . which is a little slang for breeders to say that is short and simple. then you will breed that normal ,spider or pastel het for pied , back to the original pied and get pastel pieds ,spieds, or just pieds , hope i helped =,)

[woopsreptiles]

3 years to raise them up? you are a little too slow there buddy , i can get males ready to breed in 10months and females in 18

[leomes397]

What does het mean?