Ball pythons to get first. Best beginner snakes for ball python breeding! 

Nice to see down to earth people doing it for the love not the money, great work team 👍🏻

"best beginner snakes to breed" *pulls out spider* ...👀

You guys should do a video on lethal genes great video by the way

Lesser is probably my favorite "starter" gene, pastel would be second, there's just so much you can do with those morphs and they're beautiful on their own

The second you said spider I was just imagining it corkscrewing as you pull it out lmfao

I call them "foundation morphs," rather than "beginner morphs."

I’m subscribing. I’ve watched a few of your videos now and you’ve been an honest bloke through and through. I rarely ever subscribe but I enjoy your enthusiasm and respect your advice to your audience.

Man your videos are great 👍 and very educational,keep up the good work Olympus Reptiles 😁

great video...cant wait to see what you guys make new

You hit it dead on at the end and pretty much throughout the entire video. Your videos are awesome AWESOME!!! lol. Hope you guys have a great evening.

Mojave and lesser is the best cheaper morphs to get, because if you do eventually decide to breed them you can get an all white snake : D

so when the belly turns a little pinkish that is a good indicator of shedding soon???? Also you and camera guy Curt are climbing my list of favorite reptile channels... you keep it real with the viewers and the content is great. keep up the great work!

Real Good Video Keep Up The Good Work Matt

Thanks for the great advice, made so much sense! I will heed it.

Truly appreciate you sharing your experience and knowledge!

Thanks for showing us the adult morphs and for the detailed advice. :)

Love your videos, I look forward to them every week. Just nice to watch people who started small and are starting to get bigger and bigger through out the years. Keep it going and I’ll be there tuning in every week. PS I’m from Ontario, Canada 🐍👍🏼🤘🏼

When you pushed the tub back in at 1:40 I lost it 😂😂😮‍💨 thanks for all your hard work 💪🏽

You were one of the main reasons I chose to go with a ball python first instead of a corn. (And lets face it, BPs will always look cooler...) I picked up my first girl Monday. She is a Mojave. I was looking at snake after snake and kept coming back to her. Thanks for all the great videos and information. Just hate waiting a week. Haha

Great Video! im starting with a 0.1 mojave 0.1Fire and a 1.0 Het pied buying more to make my future projects tho

I personally love the calico gene. diffrence in each are low white to high white

This oldie popped up in my feed. Kinda crazy seeing the old room and that janky old rack lol. Amazing how far you guys have gone.

Agreed glad you said spider 1st underrated and gets a bad wrap sometimes. You know what your talking bout take notes people

Great video just what I've been looking for.....you gave me my answer!!!!!! Thank you I just got a lesser I was trying to find out what would be good to get to put with my male lesser you gave me some answers thanks I love the bel but still not sure what way to go. But gave me something to think about

Thank you so much for this awsome starter BP breeding video :-) you make it easy to understand for beginners like me... :-)

Thank you bud. Have a great afternoon also.

I really like it when you compare python together and you explain us what a morph add to another. It is really easier to understand for newbies like me :) Thank you! I think it would be way more easier to have something like a tree of a lots of pictures of different morph in order to understand what a mix between 2 morphs will do.

Great video & good advice to follow 👍👍

My snakes I just started with are resesive. Desert Ghost! I looked for a long time, and really liked the DG combos the most.

Thank you great vlog helped me i want to start breeding

I love Lesser, too! I a little biased, though. She was my first BP, and is the sweetest girl ever. I love Lesser w/ Leopard. One of my 2 fave combos (other than GHI/Mojave.)

I agree with your choices! Any gene that enhances other genes are great start snakes, because no matter which road you take, you will have genes to make them better. Enchi, Pastel, Fire, Yellow Belly, etc.. Great video guys!!

Great video guys!

Dude you are cool as hell,love your videos,

Sorry I’m with Kirk ENCHI !!! Great vid fellas 👍🏼 keep the good work

Great video y'all. I just got my first yellowbelly (600g currently) female. This video pretty much answered what I need to breed her to once she's up to size so thank you for that. I also didn't realize yellowbelly to yellowbelly made ivories but I do now so thank you for that info as well. I'll be getting a black pastel male and a female fire at the upcoming Herps Conroe show here in Texas on the 27th so I'm excited about that as well.

Great advice, appreciate the video!

Thanks for making this video. It gave me really good insight on what to play with for morphs. I just started collecting ball pythons. I've got 3 of the genes you talked about. Very cool! Didn't even know what paired with what was going to do. I appreciate you taking the time to make this. Made my day man thank you!! I've got a 2 spiders both male and female...male pastel yellow belly...female pastel...and a male pied. All of age to breed.

You can get albinos super cheap now. like 120 to 180 bones. i know its not the price of a spider but its kinda close, and it looks vastly different.

Thanks guys so much love the videos

you guys are awesome! thanks for sharing your snakes ( I spelled Snack's before 😅 i'd feel really bad ) You guys really give everything that you need to know Maddy-

Just got my first spider female, can’t wait to breed her in the next couple of years.

Excellent video!! I want to breed snakes because I have an extreme passion for snakes and I want to work with snakes. But also want to share my passion with others! My dream job!

I’m an Axanthic man, all the way. I’ve bought 2 snakes from JD Constriction and they are awesome.

Awesome video as always man I think Bananas are awesome as well (depends what to breed it to). Also I was wondering if you would do a video on the new RU-vid Rules since there are lots of small RU-vidrs that watch you and give out your opinion. I did one myself but obviously you can reach a lot more people than I can. Idk its your opinion

Loving all the info! Question: Do you know of any websites that would list genes and detailed descriptions of what characteristics define each gene?

Appreciate this educational video!

The more of these videos I watch, the more I fall in love with the different morphs. You have some gorgeous animals.

I posted last month about axanthics being a dream of mine and yeaaaaaa a lot changed in a month. I now have four snakes in the house and two that i have to go pick up this weekend and next week. "Starter Genes" being a firefly, an albino black pastel pinstripe, a lesser bee, and a pair of axanthic VPI, the female is an albino... and one normal! LOL! Four of which are proven breeders. Pretty excited about the possibilities with those genetics!

I need a blue eyed Lucy!

great video plz more of that content especially explaining what compinations = what morph For a newbie it´s a lot of work to figure out what + what equals bumblebee etc.

My fave starters would be mojave, lesser, pinstripe, black pastel. There are some stunning gene combos out there to make with them

Ayyy I love all white snakes too! hitting that notification button lol

Very good info just what I was looking for. Do more on the starter snakes and mixing. What would you do? I have a female Pastave breed 2x to my male (just got all these all new) Pastel Calico (yellow gold colir) they have some cool calicos... have one of the daughters 1.5 yrs old. All these BPs are 5-6 yrs old. Then have a Double Pastel male. These 4 from one sale. Now picked up two girls 4.5 years old told they are Firefly s... one is beautiful yellow gold with black spider marks looks like a hornet. Other same pattern but pastel colors . Which of my two males should I pair with which female? Pastel calico for sure to Pastave. But to the two firefly spiders females not sure. Wish could show pic of two "fireflys" to get posted id. Looking to get spider female breeding size and female Sunburst breeder. Yes on a budget. Keep up these mixing vids. What would be unorthodox to breed combination? Ps the BPs I got now previous owner paid for 3 bout $4000 6 years ago from breeder in WI.

Love that yellow belly pastel

Had to sub after watching this. Your videos rock. I'm gonna get a lesser at some point, maybe even a white snake. Idk if I'll take up breeding I'll have you to blame lol

Great video! I'll be breeding my Mystic Potion het Pied female with a Banana Enchi Spider male for my first time breeding Balls :)

I’m surprised Banana didn’t make the cut. My first & only snake ( I’ve had her since fall) is a Pied PH Ghost. She is quite orange tho so she’s probably YB also.

I also am a huge fan of Whitesnake, overall maybe a little underrated hair band. Perhaps a morph suggestion a white ball python, scaleless except on the head and call it a Coverdale. Thinking outside the box my friend. Big fan of your channel, keep the balls going brother.

My first was a stinger bee. Yay for enchi!

I think hets are worth mentioning for the beginner wanting to dabble in breeding. A het with 1 or 2 co-doms. Can make some nice co-dom combos right off and can set up for some nice projects down the road.

Hi great vid as aaaalways.....so nice to see u are ok. Great info. Really need some well wishes n prayers right now as going through something really scary right now oh n mat enchi enchi enchi 😉

What about a candino as a first snake? What can I get that will keep its yellow? Thank you love you videos!!!!

My first pick would be mojave. Love love love any mojave combo, and they are great as single gene snakes too!

My opinion before watching: Pastel, Mojave, butter/lesser, yellowbelly, fire, pinstripe. Affordable basic morphs! If you aren't worried about paying more, banana/coral glow are great obvious color mutation and mix well with lots of stuff and I really enjoy ghi patterns, a normal ghi is getting more affordable. Personally any mix of the above with yellowbelly is like icing on the snake cake for me too, it just jazzes everything up. After: LOL mostly in agreement! Same reasons. Excellent effects on pattern and color. My pref of pinstripe is personally down to wobble. You can mix sugar or calico and pinstripe to get similar effects as the natural spider but when something neurological obviously passes down the chances that it some day will be a bigger problem are too great to me to risk it. I love spider looks, but as it is some spider wobbles become extreme and the animal cannot eat without assistance, or just won't eat. They can injure themselves a little more easily that way as well, it's a QOL thing for me. Like if a mammal has a trait where it walks and moves or eats funny, you just don't breed it - and if you do it is considered irresponsible. So I guess that's where my opinion forms. I understand most spiders live perfectly healthy, normal lives but I see this wobble and it scares me from a genetic point of view. Today's wobbly cute spider is tomorrow's bloodred stargazing corn. I know spider isn't the only wobble too, but it makes me wary of any gene that carries it. I think anyone looking to breed should really do their research, make sure they understand the risk they are taking with some of these genes like deserts and super spotnose and spiders, and make a calculated judgement call. As long as the repercussions are understood, it's just about being responsible if you make sick animals after that.

I have seen multiple spider balls with a severe head wobble

Thank u for this video! So many things I wonder about... that helped. Good info! Great choices. Highway freeways ... country rds 😂😂😂

Great Video!!!!!!

I'm in love with piebalds. Not the most expensive snake out there, but also not the least. I kind of want to just breed a bunch of hets just so more people can breed them.

Love the video

How you doing I just have a standard ball python but I love the solid color pythons as well all white or all black it's nothing like them can you make a video all about those snakes and how to breed them please I beg you make a video I would appreciate it

We got into ball pythons as pets, now are considering breeding as a hobby, and arent sure what direction to go to build on what we already have without a crazy high investment. We have a bumble bee male, a super pastel calico male, a 100% het pied 66% het ghost male and female (clutch mates), a normal female, a superfly female, and a lesser female. We worked on spending the initial money in good equiptment - herpstat thermostats on c serpent racks, and starting a rat colony to ensure we would have the correct size to feed babies, now its time to get a few more girls.

I like pie balds the best, im not sure if that has any relate to this video since I know nothing about traits but..... Also i'v seen black and white BP's, how the heck do you get that?

My first morph is a super fire female. Her eyes aren't totally black and are more like midnight blue with those red pupils and not a spec of yellow on her. Picking up an albino female tomorrow to add to the breeding project as well, though I'm mainly picking her up as she's a re-home situation. Not the most extreme first choices, but I love how fire works well with everything like pastel and lesser do and my girl Luna should mother some gorgeous babies in the future.

An axanthic and a blue eyed lucy have always been a dream of mine!

You have mentioned in the past using Normals te replicate single genes or to test to see what you have. As a beginner how soon should you get a normal and what is a good number or ratio to have in your collection?

Just got my first BP, she is a normal and we absolutely love her. She is gorgeous, dark bronze and even my fiance who was terrified of snakes wants to have more snakes and eventually start breeding. So I have planned three new balls. A Lesser boy, a Banana boy, and a mojave girl. But i just found a lesser het ghost boy (absolutely GORGEOUS! With creamy white colors) and a black Pastel mojave girl. And so I am torn between all the beautiful morphs out there. How can you deside?!

Need an extended cut of this 😁

I'm still waiting for more morphs. I know that there are still more to squeeze from the ball python genes. We still have no solid black ball python (melanistic), solid yellow ball python (xanthistic), solid red ball python (erythristic) yet, whereas that's one of the most common morphs of most animals especially we have the red pigment from its relative short-tailed python, and it's not impossible to do.

I agree with kurt. Enchi makes everything better, and super enchi is even nicer. Calico is another great stacker gene

Lesser, Mojave, Yellow belly, Enchi, Fire, GHI, Pastel, Leopard. You could build an empire with these genes alone yes sans recessives haha. Not saying that's what I'm doing but it can be done, unfortunately I got sucked into the recessives, it's a crazy waiting game if you aren't rich and can't afford to buy 70 gene animals from Justin Kabylka but heck start with hets and eventually you can make glowing snakes too. Love the channel by the way, keep up the great work.

Great Video 👌💯 Question: I have a male bumblebee ball and would like to breed him. What kind of female should I breed him with and why?

I got lost in the combination possibilities and the genes but the white snake is sooooooooo prety!

Can you get a BEL from a butter het G stripe female and super pastel butter male?

I have got my temperatures set at 30.c day and night. My thermostat set 9 morning till 6pm day temperature then 6pm till 9am night temperature. I’m ready to cool my female and introduce male so can u tell me in Celsius the temps u use and the times for your day and night u use thanks big fan of your work

I know this is an older video but it can help for sure. I am getting back into breeding as a hobby and to make some side money. So, I started out getting a couple for pets with no aspirations to breed. For my birthday last year I got a pinstripe (later found out it was a female) and a pastel Enchi male. Well my Pinstripe put on some size this year and I rescued a big normal female a few months back. It got me thinking about breeding again. I went to a show and I got a few more but they will need to get some size before breeding. You can start for just a few hundred dollars in snakes. Pastel Enchi Male to a normal, pinstripe, Mojave and black pastel should make some cool snakes that should sell at a show. I have $300 in snakes and I should be able to make a profit in the first year I produce.

Could you please talk about which sex should be what morph in combos? Like do you need a male or female spider to a m/f lesser, etc? Thanks Matt and Curt!

A pastel ball python was my second snake

So I have a Pastel Vanilla Female. I am looking to get a male to try my hand in breeding. Male morphs that I am considering are Black Pastel/Vanilla, Black Pastel/Spider, Black Pastel/Leopard, Leopard/Vanilla, or Leopard/Lesser. Among those which would have the best looking babies? Any other morphs that you would recommend instead of or in addition to those male combos? I generally prefer deep dark colors so I like the Black Pastel and Leopard morphs, but I also like all white snakes so the Lesser appeals to me as well.

What would be the first male you would buy i currently have a 2500 gram pastel female, a 2400 gram normal and a 2600 gram spinner enchi het ghost ?

Some thing similar to spider that on the cheaper side I believe is woma.

Hey uh do you have a store or website i could buy a lesser at? I love the fact that you don't care some much about the money!

Do you know what would pair well with a female normal? I figured a BEL would be good for creating a lesser clutch but I'm open to suggestions. I've had a pet normal for about 11 years since she was just a tiny little thing, but she just produced an unexpected Parthenogenesis clutch and they all hatched just fine and healthy via maternal incubation, so I feel in the coming years after I'm out of Uni I might do a little bit of breeding because this accidental situation turned out pretty good (well now I've just got to get them eating, then we'll be golden).

What can I breed with my Pastel Candino female, what can I make?

I actually acquired one of your Ivory Pastel Enchi’s through a third party that sold him to me great little dude real spicy 🌶️ haha 😂

I have a Pastel (M), a Classic (F) and an Enchi Pastel Yellow belly (F) .

I know this is an older video but I had a question. We are getting our first ball next month. She is a blue eyed lucy (lesser/majave). If we decided to breed her far off in the future what would be some good genes to consider pairing with her?

What about enchi Mojave and bumblebee ball python

what about pinstripe yellow belly?

But what can you breed the bel with