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Reduced Pattern Project

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Posted by: Hillary Webb at Mon Jan 5 11:49:50 2004   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Hillary Webb ]  
   

Hello Everyone! How about a little story?



The tiger ball pythons are very popular and quite possibly one of the prettiest looking "normal" morphs in my opinion. I have been working with my female since I wrangled her out of VPI in 1995.









She bred for me in 1997 and had two male offspring. An example of hindsight = 20/20... I shouldn't have sold them. But the owner of one of the males bred him to a normal female and hatched out two perfect looking tigers.





Of course, I tried to breed her again in the following years but didn't have any luck. She wasn't a terrific eater and preferred live food when she would occasionally eat. In 2000 she decided to start eat pre-killed rats and quickly began to gain weight. So I put her in with my favorite reduced pattern male.





Lots of breeding but no babies! So in 2003 after no interest from my tiger male, I put my best breeder male in with her, my albino (also from VPI.) He is also a reduced pattern and I was hoping that their offspring would be perfect tigers.





The result was five eggs laid in August 2003.





1.4 babies hatched in October 2003. The babies didn't get the "perfect tigers" memo... and did have some black pattern inside their tan blotches. But, they are still very nice little banded babies that I can't wait to raise up and see where this pattern mutation takes me.





Hope you enjoyed my little story. It certainly has been a lot of fun for me to experience. The fun part is just beginning!



Best wishes to everyone in his or her upcoming season!

Hillary Webb

www.captivebredpythons.com

   

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