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I am getting a cheap high-white pied female from a family member ($500!)...I usually do boas so this is going to be my only semi-long term ball project...at least my first...I might do more if I like it, but anyways...here is what I'm debating on.

I could do the normal:

Pied x Pied...or hets if I can't afford a male by breeding age(next year I believe...haven't seen her yet) No project here. Simply pied balls...boring, but not bad as a first project.

Super pastel x pied..making some pastels het for pied...then maybe trading a female for a male so that way I can have pastel het pied x pastel het pied. No full pied clutch, but a clutch in the future that'll give super pastels pied....when the babies are old enough. Long term, but tempting...

Or, I could make a bigger investment and figure out my killerbee pied project...which I would buy a killerbee het for pied. Finding a reptible breeder and good price might be hard.

Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated! Thanks.

Try something new, the projects you suggest have been done before.

I don't think he is trying to come up with a NEW project that hasn't been done yet...Any of those possible combinations would be a good way to start and get the feet wet so to speak...

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Congrats! That's awesome, especially if she's not a hatchling and is only a year away from breeding size.

Spider pieds are nice but tend to only have color/pattern on their heads and pure white bodies, just something to think about. Difference between a Spider Pied, Bumble Bee Pied, or Killer Bee Pied you are mainly looking at difference in head color/pattern.

If you want a pattern morph involved with your project and don't want to make just white snakes with pretty faces, you might look into Pinstripe as an option. A Lemonblast het Pied male would give you the possibility of getting Pieds, Pastel Pieds, Pinstripe Pieds, or if you are lucky Lemonblast Pieds on your first breeding.

There are a lot of other really great Pied combos out there. You'll have alot of fun picking out your male and I think you'll really enjoy working with morph balls

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Ball Pythons
1.1 Het Caramels (Edward & Bella)
0.1 Normal 66% ph Caramel (Rosalie)
0.1 Caramel (Bellatrix)
1.0 Honey Bee (Aragog)
0.1 Hypo Pastel (Nagini)
0.1 Spider 66% ph Hypo(Nymphadora)
1.1 Mojaves (Lucius & Renesme)
1.1 Pastel Lessers (Jacob & Narcissa)
0.1 Pinstripe (Arwen)
1.0 Pewter (Salazar)
0.1 Bumble Bee (Alice)
0.1 Lemonblast (Luna)
1.0 Bell Pastel (Jasper)
0.1 African Dinker (Esme)
0.1 Normal (Madame Olympe Maxime)
0.1 Het Pied
1.1 Pastel Dinkers (Snape & Xiomara)
0.2 Ghana Dinker Babies

Corns
1.1 Normals het Amel, Anery, Charcoal, Diffused, Hypo (Romeo & Juliet)
1.0 Blizzard het Diffused (Tumnus)
1.0 Blizzard poss het Anery, Hypo, Diffused (Cotton)
0.1 Anery Lavender het Amel (Lucy)
0.1 Plasma poss het Hypo (Victoria)
1.0 Plasma poss het Albino
1.0 Hypo Plasma
1.1 Amel Motleys (Harry & Ginny)
0.1 Lavender Motley poss het diffused
1.0 Lavender Pinstripe Motley het Amel
0.1 Fire poss het Anery, Charcoal, Hypo (LeeLoo)
0.1 Normal het Albino, Lavender, Anery, Charcoal, poss het Diffused
1.0 Albino het Lavender, Anery, Charcoal, poss het Diffused
1.1 Sunkissed poss het Plasma (Arthur & Molly)
0.1 Dilute Blue Motley (Myrtle)
1.0 Pastel Motley (Nick)
0.1 Diffused Caramel

Kings
0.1 Thayeri - Leonis (Sidney)
1.0 Thayeri - MSP
2.1 Hypo Brooks

Milks
1.1 Tangerine Albino Hondurans
0.1 Hypo Tangerine Albino Honduran

Thanks for the input so far!
I didn't know certain pieds tend to be fully white if a morph...any idea why?

Yeah, I'd love to create my own, but I definitely don't have the funding for that!

Plus, doing pieds starting with balls is a great start as it is...instead of messing with spiders like a lot of people I know start off with.

I will have to look further before I come up with an idea...but I think I'd rather it be a project than just pied x pied for sure!

Thanks once again, Kingsnake :3.

I agree with SlytherLyn's lemonblast het pied suggestion. There was one posted here in the last couple of months and it was spectacular. Good luck whichever way you go!

Thanks a lot everyone. Yall are a lot nicer than the boa crowd....they can be mean sometimes...lol.