Need Opinions-What morph next?

First time post here on faunaclassifieds, was directed to this site by a friend and now I spend hours browsing forums and classifieds (lots of great info). I currently have two ball pythons. One is a male albino and the other is a female albino pastel. I've had snakes in the past but now I want to try and breed ball pythons. I'm going to the next Hamburg, PA reptile show and plan on picking up a couple more ball python morphs...just not sure which one's yet? What do you reccomend that isn't outragously expensive yet will get some interesting hatchlings? Budget would be 500-600 dollar range each. There are so many morphs out there I'm not sure which one to get and I haven't quite learned what kind of morphs you'll get when you breed two other morphs. I've been given a lot of great information from friends but unless I write everything down I tend to forget all that info especially when it comes to what kind of offspring you'll get when you breed two morphs. I have 2 5-tub racks from boamaster on the way and look forward to filling all the tubs.

I think a fem Cinnamon het Albino would be sweet. I think I saw a possible het breeder size for sale around your price range.

Cool, thanks...I'll have to see if I can find it. I thought a piebald would be cool but not sure what you'd get when breeding them with another morph and they are a little above the budget range I was looking for.

If you cross the piebald with the albino you'll get a normal looker that's double het for albino piebald. A pair of those run a nice penny but when you get a visual, big $$$ if you can find a buyer.

Hey thanks, like I said I'm still new to the breeding thing so this info is coming in very handy. If I couldn't find a piebald female to pair with my male albino and got a male piebald and paired it with the female albino pastel would the outcome be the same for the most part or would that pastel gene make a difference?

Originally Posted by Stretch_83

Hey thanks, like I said I'm still new to the breeding thing so this info is coming in very handy. If I couldn't find a piebald female to pair with my male albino and got a male piebald and paired it with the female albino pastel would the outcome be the same for the most part or would that pastel gene make a difference?

I missed the pastel part. That would be the better deal for sure. You would get the same results but half would be visual for pastel.

I would recommend a lesser and a mojave ( one male one female ) that would be a great blue eyed lesser project, and there is a ton of work going on with lesser combos and mojaves still to give you a lot of pairing options in the future. As far as I know pieds are still in the 700 and up range. If you want to get into pieds I would recommend getting a het pied female and raising it up, by the time it's close to breeding size a male pieds price should have dropped a bit and should be more affordible. That's just my opinion. Good luck in whatever you choose.

Thank you both for the info...now at least I have a couple ideas to work with. If anybody else has any suggestions I'd like to hear them. Thanks again.

Try looking on worldofballpythons.com Michael. It has a morph list. U click on any of the Morphs and if its a combo it will tell u which morphs make it and provide a pic of that morph. It also has a genetic wizard where all u do is plug in what u have an/or what u want to breed and its show u the outcome of the cltch in percentages.. Gives u a rough idea.

Great site and whetre i am learning most of my stuff from.

That site is great! I've been there before but never used the genetic wizard, very cool.