Brother, I've been in the industry a long time and like most of us I know how it all works. But I could never explain it like you did. I watch all your videos, and many videos from other videos...but, this one BY FAR the best video I've ever seen on the internet. AWESOME Your excitement and love for these wonderful animals shines through, makes the videos fun to watch as well
I second that, fantastic explanation for someone researching here to get into BP’s. Probably just start out with 1 and as I pick up knowledge debate dabbling with tiny scale breeding. This perfect explanation in a video is a like, save and earned a sub!
@@cobra27ca I wouldnt waste the money bro. I did it for 23 years successfully, but now its honestly a joke. I sold my entire collection, as well as rat breeding business last year. The Govt will also eventually step in and shut it down, because no big breeder is paying the taxes they should be. Trust me, they are all being watched heavily
Thank you for making this video. I've watched it a few times and it's really stuck with me on how I plan to proceed into breeding recessive lines. Keep up the great content.
Looking to start my own breeding projects and I subscribed before the video even ended because the explanation was on point, very down to earth, and very helpful! Looking forward to browsing the rest of your uploads and learning all that I can!
That Axanthic male is absolutely gorgeous! Great video, too. I know a good bit about genetics, being a biologist, but I still love watching other people talk about their snakes and seeing the enjoyment and energy they get out of the animals. Really refreshing!
I love your videos and i think all Of your advice is gonna help a ton , thats the exact plan i made for my tri stipe project looking forward to more videos :)
Wished I had watched this before I started but you gave such good information I know where to adjust things now. Best explanation I’ve seen thus far. Easy to understand and remember.
Another outstanding video sir. By far yours are the most straight forward and understandable on youtube. I'm currently a small time hobbyist (total of 8 in the collection) putting together some cool projects in the near future. This video really helped convince me pairing my male pastel clown to my female leopard should be the start of something special later down the road. I actually have a male calico that came from you that's ready to pair with my female spider (spiders rock!) Hopefully get a few caliders next year as well. Anyway....job well done and keep em coming!
Matt. Great information. Very helpful. My older daughter and I thank you for taking the time to do these videos. It really helps us understand what we need to do and expect with the project we are working on. Thanks. Gray and Miranda
Great job explaining the recessive gene matt and of course i did it backwards visual female and het males. Lol never to late to start going the other way.
ive been breeding rats and mice for a few years now, small scale especially if i try and compare to the USA market (im In south africa) but have lately thought of starting ball Pythons and can honestly say these guys are the most informative and helpful videos on the market. ill be in the USA in summer time next year and would love to take you guys out for a beer and come and see your collection
So excited. Took your advice and watched the two female VPI axantic visuals lock to my HET VPI male coral glow enchi yellowbelly. I've raised these for 2 loñg years. And can't be more happy to actually listen to someone for once. Hopefully get eggs from these 3.
sweet!!!! i love the information you gave on this video yesterday i was explaining to a friend of mine about the same thing so I'm going to share this video tho him to give him a better view on recessive co dominant and dominant so this has been a good help thanks again!!!!!
Subbed! I love ball pythons and hope to become a breeder. They’re fkn awesome animals. And thanks for putting so much effort into your vids and sharing. Gonna binge watch some today lol.
great video, but i didnt see it sooner, as i am doing it the long way! just got my first pair of visual pieds! started a tri stripe project with a male het tri ph pied bred to a female het for a new gene last year(she proved out this year) making a couple possible triple het females! hope to see my albino hets prove out this year!
I absolutely love the way you educate me you make me want to just buy a female clown it's so tempting they're so hard to find on morphmarket right now and they are expensive which I don't have right now the money to spend but it is my dream to have one female clown in my collection and maybe sometime later within this year I will be able to.
I wish this video existed 3-4 years ago when I started purchasing my snakes. I'm in a good position now... but this would have made life so much easier back then, when trying to decide "what to buy". My Piebald male should be giving me 3 clutches of 100% het pied offspring, and another clutch of 1/2 pied (bred to a 100% het female)... and then I'm hoping to prove out my 50% het Ghost female this year... but having this information before I got all my current snakes would have saved me a TON of time. Great video, keep them coming!
I THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH FOR TH8S VIDEO!! I WISH I WOULD HAVE SEEN THIS ONE SOONER, NOW I FINALLY GET IT!! I'VE WATCHED SOANY VIDEOS FROM MULTIPLE PEOPLE, UNTIL I AM BLUE IN THE FACE, AND NO ONE HAS EXPLAINED IT QUITE SO WELL, I STILL DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT UNTIL NOW THAT I WATCHED THIS VIDEO AND NOW MULTIPLE LIGHT BULBS TURNED OK IN MY BRAIN, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!
Hi! This was a great video, very informative! Like you I absolutely love the Spider but I’ve heard the “wobble” could be quite detrimental to the snake. Strikes for food being off, accidentally biting themselves and turning themselves upside down. What are your thoughts? (I am very new to this hobby, extremely green ☺️) Thank you 🙏🏻
MJ Axanthic was what got me into ball pythons, my little visual male is amazing. I was just wondering if people had done work with VPI/SK hets? I never hear about such double recessives (though SK is almost non-existant in Canada, its MJ or some VPI) and I was wondering if the axanthics are entirely incompatible (as in hatchlings dont make it) or its just seen as taboo amoung keeps? Thanks for the awsome videos Matt!
So come the new year I will be looking for a snake like the baby you pulled out at 8:50 if I am a non Patreon person how might I go about getting a snake like that from you?? I know this is an older video and I got about two months before I get me one I am interested in getting one from you. Been watching all your vids and taking my 7 years of keeping ball's to the next level, I love watching and learning from you!! I have three females two to grow out and one ready to breed that I have had for the 7 years, she is huge and I would love to breed her to something really cool :) And again thank you for teaching and making the vids.
Hi Matt, I wonder if you could explain how I might make a scaleless Palmetto, I have a female visual Palmetto and a female het palmetto, het scaleless with plans to buy a visual male palmetto but can't get my head round how to get the double visual, many thanks
Can you do a video of all about axanthic? I have a VPI baby and she triggered my interest with the line overall. I know you don’t have that specific line, but I enjoy your content over all and would love a video of just your axanthic line (if I’ve missed it please let me know where to find it!). :)
love the vid. this is exactly how I was thinking about getting into the clown Gene buying a visual male, but I'm going to breed it to females I already have to mix in pastel and butter genes
hey is there any chance of you guys doing a video on carpet python breeding.about what you can mix, morphs, age and weights, cooling.things like that would be awsome!!!! keep up the good work always watch your vids!
Phil Russell it will be awhile. unfortunately our large female carpet passed away due to egg binding last year. we are raising up another female though.
I have a male BEL. I bought her from our local reptile shop. I was told to breed him to a normal to see if my BEL has some recessive genes. What do you think?
Awesome videos! You do a wonderful job and your great at marketing yourself!!!! I have a question, I am finally able to start establishing a small collection to start for breeding Dom and Co-Dom projects in the future. I want to start with babies to raise and learn before I jump into something, so it will be a while before I attempt to breed. I wanna do it right and produce beautiful snakes. Do you have any advise a little bit different about breeding these genes instead of recessive? Any help or advice would be appreciated!
Ok thank you very much! Just wanted to double check see if anything was different. Keep up the awesome videos your personality is great, I really enjoy watching them! Have a great day!
this is probably a long shot lol but I'm looking to start breeding my buddy is a great breeder and I speak with him but I'm thinking on trying to start with champagne. I love what champagne does do you think that is a good gene to start with?
So can you help me I’ve got a toffeeno female I was going to put my citrus pastel banana pied male to her what do you think I could get if you can help please
I️ am wanting to breed my male cinnamon ball python he’s almost a year old and I’m looking for a adult female ghost het albino how do you determine the price on the babies?
That makes getting hets very difficult for someone who doesn't know any breeders! Do u use clown and pied markers to help? How can u know for sure if you don't know the breeder? What am I missing with axanthic? Why are just a few truly colorless??
I'm pretty sure the MJ line has proven incompatible with both VPI and SK. Don't forget the black axanthic (from VPI but not compatible) either! And red axanthic (even though its co-dom).
DJKarll yup, black axanthic and the het red axanthic were totally different genes. I wasn't aware if they had fully tested the MJ line yet to see if it was actually SK, vpi, or joliff. while I love axanthic, the multiple lines are a PITA.
My only recessive project is an even longer route. I have three het Clown. 1 male 2 female... what are the odds I eventually pick up a visual male before my hets are ready to go?? Lol
I think the example you give has some merit if you plan on holding back a bunch of females to breed to powerhouse males, but my favorite way is to get co-dom females that have genes I want to combine with the recessive, and then create comdom het recessives to breed back to daddy recessive. Then in 2 generations you can get something more interesting than what you started with. You also don't have to worry about people lying about hets that way because you know what you bred. You can even pick females with different codoms you want to combine together later down the road with your recessive. edit: haha later in the video you talk about doing that but with codom het recessives. you are so on the ball in this video.
this is the project i' working on now i have a pastel mojave ax. het a mojave het ax.and a firefly double het clown trying to find two more females then a clown
Hi do you need to wash your hands each time you handle a snack, so you get off the sent of the first one, sorry new to this dont own one just watch at mo
herpetology first, call me an overachiever but im interested in learning as much about all three as i can ^^ Ive always loved reptiles i used to pick up the lizards and garden snakes out of our backyard when i was little. it freaked my mom out so much lol
AerotheVampire man good luck! I honestly self taught, my day job is in law enforcement of all things. this is my passion and hopefully a retirement supplement.
thank you i am super excited to start school in the fall and when i finally finish school i plan on purchasing my first pair of pythons :) i think its awesome that you taught yourself how to do this its amazing. i would love to do some hands on learning while im in school
I don't really see a reason too. If they ever escaped the house they would die. I also have the room sealed (door runners etc) so on the rare event we have an escape they don't go far.
Bruce Wayne depends on what it is het for. different prices for different genes. the double het in the video is $75. he is het for both SK axanthic and ghost.
It also depends on what the "het" is for. Try to buy something that is het Sunset... last time I looked MALE het Sunset are selling for $2,000....... and good luck finding a female 100% het sunset. But like he said, different morphs are worth different prices. Het Clown is worth more than het Ghost, etc, etc.
Wyoming Reptiles I promise one is coming very soon. trying to get setup the way I want with lightning etc before doing a video, but we are working on it!!
Would it be a 66% visual het female that we should invest in 100% visual hets, 50%... I mean what is the percentage if it's not going to be an actual visual het female clown to invest in what is the best route
Brandon Theis hello, and thanks for your interest! we currently have nothing for sale, but have 15 hatchlings just waiting to get to size and a full incubator at the moment. we will post on Facebook when they are ready!
I notice when you take your snakes out u just pick them right up all 8 of my snakes always think there being fed when opening up there tubs why is that I keep them fed every Friday night they all eat
Chris Mcdonald I just read the body language and go from there. if you watch close I often use my off hand as a distraction if they seem to be giving me the eye.
I have a offer : Ball pythons 2019 : 0.1 Phantom 90e 0.1 Pastel 70e 0.1 Enchi 70e 0.1 Pinstripe 70e Ball pythons 2018 : 2.2 Piebald high White 300/400 e 2.4 het piebald 150 pair, 80 female 0.1 calico het piebald 150 0.1 pastel ghost 150 1.1 pastel het clown 100/150 e 0.1 Butter pastel 120 0.1 Mojave pinstripe 120 0.1 Spinner 120 2.2 VPI Axhantic 150 /200 2017 Ball python : 0.1 Pastel 66%het clown 150 0.1 Pastel vanilla 150 0.1 YB Cinnamon 150 0.1 Mojave champagne 50 %het ghost 250e i Have 400e and i will love to start breading so what to bay ? I have everything else just wait for snakes...
Ramon Quirarte sounds good. shipping is usually around $55 or so. price will be set when babies hatch, as market is so variable. just keep an eye here and our Facebook page!
Herpotologeydude S lol, maybe not stalk but definitely research. nothing worse than having a recessive project you put years in to find the hets aren't actually hets.
also as a side note, Watch our hobby help video. we also donate one snake every year to charity (last two were animal shelter, and a cancer fund). I have no idea where you would get the idea we are in it only for money. couldn't be further from the truth.
