How to Breed Female Pastel Pythons to Normal Male Ball Pythons

A ball python is a small-sized snake that is popular among reptile hobbyists. A pastel ball python is a type of morph, which is a term used to describe any genetic mutation that alters a snake's appearance. In the case of a pastel ball python, its coloring and eyes may be much lighter, but brighter in appearance when compared to a normal ball python. Breeding a pastel female ball python to a normal male ball python follows the same process as breeding any other type of ball python.

Things You'll Need

  • Incubator
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Instructions

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      Begin lowering temperatures in the male and female cages during the nighttime hours in late fall. Until breeding, they should be kept separately to avoid injury. The temperatures should be brought down 10 degrees on both the cool end and hot end, slowly by 1 degree every few days over the course of a month.

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      Place the male in the female's cage one month later. The male is usually placed in the female's cage because she is generally larger than the male and has a bigger cage.

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      Observe the snakes periodically for copulation. Snakes that are breeding will wrap the ends of their tails around each other and they can be left to copulate until they are finished. Remove the male from the female's cage after copulation has occurred.

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      Continue to offer food to the femal and when she begins to refuse meals she is ovulating and will be uninterested in food until she lays her eggs.

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      Observe the female. She should build follicles and then ovulate during the next couple months. She will shed shortly before she lays the eggs. If this does not happen, the male can be placed back with her for two to three days at a time.

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      Collect the eggs once they are laid and place them in an incubator at 89 degrees.

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      Wait about two months for the eggs to hatch.