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I have a female ball & blood python...I want to breed them to a different type. I started out with the ball and intended on getting a male blood and breeding them and hoping the babys came out looking unusual/interesting. buuut after holding the female blood and finding out she was indeed a she i couldn't put her back because of her amazing personality.
Now...I have been looking at some of the morphs and really like alot of their looks but really don't understand the breeding terms...so I'm curious about that.
Also do snakes take more after the mom or the dad? because I don't want to by a 1500 (or more) male with the thought of having some awesome babys and find that they take more after the mothers pigment/pattern.

I really don't mean to be rude when I say this, but its clear that you do not know what you are doing, what you are talking about, or what you are getting yourself into.

What you are proposing is highly difficult even for breeders with years of experience.

First, go buy some books. There are about a million for ball pythons, nowadays there are even videos.

Second, learn to breed pythons of the same species. Its lots of fun, and hard enough on its own.

Third, if you still want to try to hybridize species, there is a specific forum for it, because it is generally a very controversial topic that is frowned upon by most of the herp community. But I will warn you that there are no hard fast rules to follow when it comes to hybrids. Anything can happen.

And to start you off with one answer to your many questions...

If you go out and buy a beautiful morph snake and breed it to a normal. All of the babies will look completely normal. This is because most aberant traits are recessive, so both parents have to carry at least one copy of the gene for the offspring to show it. The babies would be heterzygous, or hets. Luckily for you there are a few ball python morphs that are dominant or codominant. Go look those up.

Not offended, but that is why I asked because it's not something I have done any research on besides looking at all the different morphs. It's not something I would be jumping into being that it will be alseast 2yrs before my 2 snakes would be old enough to breed. But it something I am obviously curious and intreged by...
I was hoping to find someone with the same interest and a much more extensive knowledge of the actual procedure who would be willing to explain and share that knowledge...obvioisly not.

This year I bred pythons for the first time. My choices were Womas and Jungle Carpets because I've always loved those species. The carpets hatched about 3 weeks ago, 1 clutch of Woma eggs died during incubation, and a second clutch is looking good at about 26 days in.

My point: I got lot of good advice from guys on this forum, but only because I took the time to do most of the research first. Check out "The Reproductive Husbandry of Pythons and Boas" before doing anything. It's out of print, but you can find it if you look. It's got a lot of useful information and is worth the $$. Another book I've heard good things about I've seen in the classifieds. It's a complete guide to popular Boa and Python morphs, which I can't remember the name to.

This is definitely not as easy as it seems, and you're asking for much more info than can be given in a single post. In addition, like you plan to do, I spent about 2 years researching before my first breeding attempt. It was after that when I started really asking specifics on the forums. To ask for everything in one shot is like asking a chef for a recipe he worked on his whole life. He may tell you what your recipe needs, but he probably won't give you his. Hope this helps.
Mike