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I purchased a c.b. Blood Python back in 05. My intention was to raise her as a pet and nothing more. Now that I am getting back into breeding again I wanted to attempt to purchase a mate for her. I was under the impression when I first purchased her that she was a Red Blood Python. As you can see in the picture she is more of a yellow then anything else. As a baby she seemed redder in color then she is today.

Would it be a better idea for me to match her up with a more yellow male or would having a red colored mate be better? (Or is it just color preference?)

I am not certain of the results of mixing the two different colored parents offspring look like. Or would you just get equal reds and yellow?

Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

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Eric

The term "red blood" or “blood python” is just standard nomenclature for any P. brongersmai, and is just used to differentiate them from P. curtus and P. breitensteini. It only loosely indicates the color that the adult animal will show as they can be either yellow, brown, orange, or red as adults regardless of their juvenile color. They typically do not breed true as far as the color of the entire clutch as it relates to the color of the two parents. Any breeding between a cross of any of the above four color phases can produce any combination of these four adult color phases in one clutch. Breeding two parents of the same color together may increase the odds of that color phase being predominant in the clutch, but definitely does not guarantee it.

Kelly

Hello Kelly,

Thank you so much for taking time out to respond to my question. I was just not certain as to what the outcome would potentially be and appreciate you clarifying that for me.

I will be looking for a nice Deep Red Male to mix up the litter (hopefully)

Thank you again,

Eric
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Eric