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First you take this male albino blood python…

… and breed him to this beautiful striped female…

… and then you get these…

We just hatched het-albino blood pythons on 25 June 03. There were 13 eggs in the clutch and 8 babies are striped and 5 had normal patterns.

We just posted a new Blood Python Gallery at VPI.com. There’s pictures of pretty blood pythons there—check it out when you get the chance. Thanks!
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don't know what I did wrong... Sorry

We took this male albino blood python...

and in mid February put him in with this striped female blood python...

and she laid 13 eggs on 27 April and on 25 June the eggs hatched to produce...

and these are some of the het-albino babies that hatched out. Eight are striped and five have a normal pattern.

We recently posted a new Blood Python Gallery at www.vpi.com with more pictures and information on these animals and more.

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Great Job! Can't wait to see your stuff in Daytona.....Richard
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Richard -amazoa-

"Changes in behavior occur when the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change."

Dave, have you ever, or do you, let the mother incubate the eggs, or do you remove the female and use an incubator? I am looking at breeding, and am getting opinions on which would be easier to do.

Thanks in advance.

We always take the eggs from a female and set them up in a 13 gal plastic can three-quarters full of damp vermiculite; we usually put 4-6 blood python eggs per can. We lay a pane of glass on the top of the can (the lid would work, but it's more fun to be able to see into the can.) We then set the can in a 12' x 12' room that's heated to 88-89 degrees with an electric heater.

Using artificial incubation, we hatch essentially 100% of the viable eggs. Maternal incuabtion simply is not as successful.

Dave I should be buying a pair of captive farmed bloods in a couple of weeks and have never kept them before. Both hatchlings are feeding but the female witch has a full stripe and is light brown with patchy cream, only feeds when you make her angry with the mouse df (it's illegal to feed live here in the uk)but the male who only has part stripe but has the same colour feeds well. How can I get the female feeding normally? When will they go red? They have started to get a bit of red on there face! I'll post pics when i have them
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It varies from snake to snake. Some don't go red, they are yellow, orange, or some shade of brown as adults. Most blood python babies descended from Sumatran stock can be expected to turn red, however.

Most babies start out as a medium brown with red or orange overtones. Most are some shade of red by a year of age, but they continue to turn red for 5-6 years. Most normals are the absolute most beautiful red at 3-5 years of age.

Some blood hatchlings are orange-red at hatching and we've seen some of these turn very red, while others turn brown.

Most bloods continue to become darker all their life, turning to a deep dark saturated red, oxblood or dark dried-blood red.

That's the great thing about the red-albino bloods--since they make red phaeomelanins instead of black eumelanins, instead of getting darker, they get redder all their life.

Thanks David can't wait to see what colours they are going to turn. How about the stripe will that change and are they like balls where the stripe in most is not genetic?. Can't wait until I can afford an albino but that will be a few years time lol

Thanks David can't wait to see what colours they are going to turn. How about the stripe will that change and are they like balls where the stripe in most is not genetic?. Can't wait until I can afford an albino but that will be a few years time lol