This is our first year breeding ball pythons. I have three girls breeding this season: a pied bred to our pinstripe het hypo male, a hypo Mojave bred to the same male, and an albino female bred to an albino pos het pied male. The albino male is pretty small and I have yet to see any locks with him, but I guess time will tell if there’s anything going on that I’m missing.

Here are some pictures that I’ve taken throughout the season to document our first attempts at breeding ball pythons!

Delilah progressed pretty much by the book – it was very cool to open her bin & see her doing exactly what she should be!



She hated the hide set up like that. The next time I checked on her she was underneath it, so I removed it from her bin.

Sunday, March 14, 2010 was a huge day for us! We had to leave early for my daughter’s horse show, but I ran up to the reptile building to check on everything before we left. I found that Delilah, our pied ball python, had laid one big beautiful egg already with more to come! It was probably best that I was forced to leave her alone, but was sad that I couldn’t take pictures of her laying. When we returned home, I found that she had laid 4 eggs and a little slug. My daughter helped me get the eggs set up and Delilah set up in a new, clean bin.