As we are half way through the 2009 breeding season, I thought I would show you some mid-winter highlights with the following pictures.

Ball Python Breeding Pictures

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Here are some pictures of our cool 2008 additions to our collection.

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Cinnamons and Black Pastels are a co-dominant base morph that will reproduce themselves, in theory, 50% of the time when bred to a normal phase ball python. The Graziani cinnamon pastel line and the Ian G. black pastel are two popular bloodlines in the hobby. Many new lines also exist as new animals have been imported from Africa.

When two cinnamons or black pastels are bred together the resulting offspring are 50% cinnamons, 25% supers, and 25% normals. These Cinnamon and Black Pastels are visual heterozygous animals for the homozygous, super cinnamon or super black pastel. These supers are a solid black, patternless ball python as juveniles. The black does lighten up as the animal matures with age. A super cinny or super black pastel bred to any normal will create 100% cinnamon or black pastels. Some supers have hatched with a deformed duck billed looking face, which breeders debate on which line is more prone to producing these odd looking supers.

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