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I have a partner that is willing to let me use his male Pastel to breed with my Poss Yellow Belly fem. He is currently about 380grams and 9mos. Do you think he is large enough or old enough to breed? Also, should he be producing sperm plugs by now? I was curious to ask what you think the split should be in that breeding loan? Is 50-50 good or should it be lower or higher? What is your opinion? Thanks again guys and gals,
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Robert Jordan

7.5.0 Ball Pythons
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He's old enough but he needs to put on about 150-200 more grams before next breeding season. I don't think he should have sperm plugs yet, he will most likly have sperm plugs next year. If there is 1 pastel yellow belly, 1 pastel, 1 yellow belly and a normal, If your possible yellow belly doe's turn out to be a true yellow belly you should get the pastel yellow belly and the normal (because yours is worth more) and the other person gets the yellow belly and the pastel. If your possible yellow belly doe's not prove to be a true yellow belly the person with the pastel gets more pastels than you (say if the clutch had 3 pastels and 2 normals the person with the pastel male should get 2 pastels and a normal and you should get a pastel and normal. Hope This Helps Scott Glover

I agree, he needs to put on more weight. What is your friend feeding him, or better yet, what isn't he feeding him? By 9 months I would consider a male small if it was under 600 grams, by comparison all the three seven month olds I have are all over 700 grams right now with one of them pushing 1000 grams. I am not power feeding them, if I was they would all be over 1000 grams. Have your friend make sure his temps are up and start feeding that guy. He should be ready by this breeding season.

As for the split I would say whoever has the most expensive morph gets first pick and then the other person gets second pick and so on and so on until there are no more hatchlings left. So if your YB proves out you get first pick and if not he gets first pick.