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CornSnakes556

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Hello everyone one!

Over the couple of months from finding that little Blizzard corn and returning it, to being givin a beautiful Normal. To collecting quite a few snakes, between the kids and husband...

now we have 2 Bally Pythons. and 2 corn snakes.

My question is.. When does everyone usally start to breed their corns? I'm in the USA as everyone knows. Like what months? And also.. I know this is a BP question but,, I have one normal female and one male Pastel. If we bred the two together, will we get anything besides normals? Havent really begun to understand the Ball Python genetics yet!
Anyway hope everyone had a great Holiday, and a wonderful New year!
Thank you!!
 
I know nothing about Ball Pythons. Corns are ready to breed when they are 3 years old, 3 feet long and 300 grams. You would want to look up brumation, not that everyone does this. Breeding for most starts around mid Feb until June or July. Best to get Kathy Love's book or do research on here about breeding. susang
 
CornSnakes556 said:
I know this is a BP question but,, I have one normal female and one male Pastel. If we bred the two together, will we get anything besides normals? Havent really begun to understand the Ball Python genetics yet!
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All or almost all mutant genes in corn snakes are recessive to their normal counterparts. In the ball python, a number of mutant genes are dominant or codominant to their normal counterparts. A creature that has a recessive mutant gene paired with a normal gene looks normal. A creature that has a dominant or codominant mutant gene paired with a normal gene does not look normal.

Pastel is a codominant mutant gene in the ball python. Most of the pastel ball pythons are heterozygous for the pastel mutant gene. In other words, a pastel ball python has a pastel mutant gene paired with a normal gene. This is probably the type you have. A homozygous pastel ball python (AKA super pastel, opal pastel) has a pair of pastel mutant genes and is significantly lighter in color than a heterozygous pastel ball python.

The expectation from mating a heterozygous pastel ball python to a normal (homozygous normal) is 1/2 heterozygous pastel (AKA pastel) babies and 1/2 normal.

The expectation from mating a homozygous pastel ball python to a normal (homozygous normal) is all babies heterozygous pastel (AKA pastel).
 
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