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Blood x ball python

13K views 17 replies 12 participants last post by  sean_mac  
#1 ·
As any one ever done this on here and how did they go about it I have a male blood and two female royal I would like to have a go at breeding them as any one produced blood balls on here already and does any one have pics
 
#3 ·
I will be attempting this when my female blood is big enough but I say give it a go. I think it's quite hard as people mentioned before about the smells and maybe not breeding with each other but give it a go and see. As long as the females are up to weight I don't see a problem. They are absolutely stunning, well I think so anyway. Lol.
 
#5 ·
super ball, how lame. they should have called it a royal blood!
 
#6 ·
they look ok, but personally i don't see how that in any way competes with each species as they are?
to each their own i guess, but i don't see the need or point. it's not like a carpondro, or anything cool like that
 
#8 ·
just personal opinion here, but i really detest calling poor royals balls lol
but like i say, that's just me: victory:

nothing wrong with them, but personally what i see in those admittedly very attractive snakes i already see in things like yellow-headed black bloods. the patterning really reminds me of that...and so since YHBBs already exist...

again, to each their own. just to me they look similar apart from the heads...

i'm not anti hybrid...some of those Imperial Pueblan King hybrids are AMAZING:mf_dribble:
 
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#10 ·
I would personally use a Female Blood and a Male Royal due to the sizing difference. I'm not sure if a Female Royal would handle the eggs (I can only assume they would in fact be larger than standard Royal Eggs (I could be wrong, I'm just making assumptions))
As mentioned, from what I have read elsewhere, there is a degree of trickery sometimes needed. Putting the same species together, before switching them at the last minute (This requires a pair of both species, so both the male and female of the opposite species are in the 'mood')
 
#12 ·
How much demand would there be for a Curtus/Regius? I don't know that they'd be that popular, especially if they couldn't breed :gasp: being a hybrid? How much might one cost? Thank you.
 
#16 ·
blood /royal

why !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in my 23 years of keeping pythons and boas why do you want to breed two different types of pythons from different places together is it for the good of the breeds or does the sound of money seem better!!!!!!!!!!!! this i may way of thinking, and if you do not agree with my message,so be it as it up to you what you do with your own animals.,
 
#17 ·
No I think you more than welcome to have a say but to be honest it is nothing to do with the money I haven't even looked at what they are worth to be honest as I didn't think that they would be worth any more than a hatchling royal or blood which when it's only a small clutch of eggs wouldn't be that much I just like the idea that I could have one in my collection of snakes and be able to say I breed and hatched him my self as things like corns and royals most people that own snakes have already had ago at doing