How to Produce a Spinner Blast Ball Python

A captive bred morph of the Python regius species, spinner blast pythons exhibit yellow coloring, dark pinstripes and spider marbling. Mature ball pythons only reach about five feet in length, can live 20 to 50 years in captivity, and become sexually mature between one and three years of age. Spinner blast ball pythons inherit one dominant gene for the marble pattern, one dominant gene for the pinstripe pattern and one or two co-dominant genes for pastel color.

Things You'll Need

  • Pinstripe ball python
  • Spider ball python
  • 2 snake enclosures
  • Plastic laying box
  • Sphagnum moss
  • Plastic container and lid
  • Vermiculite
  • Small terrariums
  • Pastel or super pastel ball python
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Instructions

    • 1

      Obtain a pinstripe ball python and a spider ball python. Ensure that one python is a male and the other is a female.

    • 2

      Prepare for the mating season. Check for good health in both snakes. Provide ample food and water for them and allow the female to slowly gain weight.

    • 3

      Lower the nighttime temperature in the enclosures to around 75 degrees, while maintaining daytime temperatures in the 80s. Do not feed the snakes for 2 to 3 weeks.

    • 4

      Introduce the male to the female's enclosure or the female to the male's enclosure. Some breeders separate the snakes for a few day weekly to provide a feeding and resting period.

    • 5

      Raise the daytime and nighttime temperatures by several degrees to simulate spring. Continue introducing the male and female for several months or until the female's underside fattens with fertile eggs.

    • 6

      Provide a laying box for the female. Line a plastic box with a soft substrate, such as sphagnum moss. The box needs to be large enough to hold the female and 4 to 8 eggs.

    • 7

      Remove the eggs from the female's enclosure. Place the eggs on moist vermiculite inside a plastic box. Cover the box and incubate the eggs at 85 to 90 degrees.

    • 8

      Check the eggs weekly. Remove and discard moldy eggs. Do not tear a moldy egg away from a healthy egg if they are stuck together; this may damage the healthy egg.

    • 9

      Separate hatchling snakes into separate plastic containers or small terrariums. Provide water and food for each hatchling. Identify spinner color morph hatchlings and have them sexed.

    • 10

      Care for the hatchlings as they mature and obtain a pastel or super pastel ball python to mate with your spinner ball pythons. Using a super pastel ball python increases the statistical probability of obtaining more spinner blast hatchlings during each breeding event.

    • 11

      Repeat the mating procedure with a mature spinner ball python and the pastel or super pastel ball python.