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Up untill now my ball python breeding has not gone very well. Last season I was going for mostly hets and most of the babies ended up being males. In the few het x het clutches I had last year I ended up either hitting no visuals or having the female slug out. This year did not start much better. So far I have had 12 lesser to normal eggs hatch and I have a whopping 1 lesser to show for it (the odds of having luck this bad must be insane). Today I finally came out on the good side. From a clutch of 8 het caramel to het caramel eggs. I hit 3 caramels. This is the first one out. A male that I think is pretty freaking nice (I may be a bit biased). The hets were purchased from John Piro.

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John Vandegrift

John, very nice carmel! Don't feel bad about the odds. Out of 32 Lesser x Normal and 5 Lesser x Lesser eggs, I have a combined 9 Lessers and 2 Blue Eyed Lucy's. I am not too upset about the Lucy's (lol!) but get real on the 9 for 32! Ouch! Good luck to you!

Jared Carr

Hope to see you in Daytona. Good luck on the rest of your season.

John Piro

Congrats on the Caramel, very nice.
Sometimes the Ball gods aren't kind. We've all had clutches of hets that were male heavy, no visuals, etc.
Just think of it as getting the bad clutches out of the way.
Glad to see the Gods were kind to you on this clutch.
3 Caramels in a clutch should make anybody happy.
John Q