i’m nearly 17 and im leaning about ball python breeding so i can hopefully do it in the future when i’m more experienced because it’s been a dream of mine for years now, this video really helped me and i love your energy. thank you so much :)

At 6:16 that female killer bee SLAYS me.😘

That's why I did start breeding my own rodents. It's part of the necessary infrastructure, just as much as tubs, heat tape, racks, water bowls, etc. I do control the rat breeding, though, and I make sure that I have enough little rats by the time the baby snakes are ready for their first meals. I sell some rats as pets even. Very informative video, as always, and thank you.

Great advice. This kind of happened to me. I started out with some Het Albino females and I had one Albino male. I got a good deal on a couple of GHI females, spiders, pinstripes among others. I had 80 females and 25 male Ball Pythons, several types of King Snakes a few Albino Burms and Granite Burms as well. Well my Rat guy moved away and I had no way of feeding my snakes. I went to the local show and sold most of my collection off. It was a sad weekend for sure but, it did free me up for other hobbies.

My racks are homemade, both snake and rodent. I find it fun to build my own, sense of accomplishment, and pride. I'm quite a handy person, and do own my own house painting business.

I get so inspired when I watch your videos you got a way of hyping me up. I'm actually starting to breed my own crickets bc I spent like 20 bucks in two weeks for my leopord geckos and I said that's enough. I plan on breeding them and eventually doing it for a living. That is my end goal. I don't care if I get rich honestly. I just want to be able to live off of doing what I love . And I love reptiles and all animals really. I get that same excitement when you talk about what you produced . That same hype inspires me and let's me know I'm not alone.

You actually just saved me man, I am on my was to Start my "breeding career" and all I thought about till now was: What snake Do I buy first? Which morphs Do I wanna breed? But damn youre totally right. I should really check my priorities. You got my follow

Yeah, I completely agree, not enough people explaing the process, yeah theres a lot of people wanting to start to breed snakes lately like myself, but a little guidance would be helpful just so I know my husbandry is tip top, and my noodles are happy. The breeding process is so meticulous and people wanna make sure they're doing things right.

That was very helpful. Definitely things to keep in mind. Love your vids. keep up the great work!

Matt this is great advice! I 110% agree to start small!

So happy I came across this video. Really helped to re focus my priorities as I’m just getting started in the hobby. Thanks man!

Good Advise Some People Needed To Hear That

great advice! most people just look at the cost of the snakes and forget about food and housing. keep up the good work guys.

Your one of the main people I search for with my questions. I refer to you all the time and your videos touch me in all kinda ways. Infrastructure is the main priority when you get Into numbers. And yes, make more videos to help the public understand that this hobby isn't just about the snake itself; but all that surrounds them costs too. Thank you OP. Go Purple!

thanks alot for the advice it helps me out alot as a future breeder

I stumbled upon this video about a year ago cause I wanting to do snake breeding for a while. I am now a well known breeder in my area :) this video helped me alot when I started. Keep up the great work (beautiful snakes by the way!)

I know this is a old video but just watched it. Great information! Totally helped keep me in check.

I don’t know why I’m just now seeing this video but thank you. Iv been wanting to start breeding I feel very ready to start and your right that topic is lacking on KZfaq so thank you for making it and making it easy to understand

Every time you put up a video I'm just starting to love this channel more and more and more like seriously you take the most common sense approach to not only snake breeding but just the general husbandry of it all, seriously I would love to purchase a snake from you. Definitely a huge fan of this channel

I am glad that you created this and I just got my first ball and I already want to breed him. This helped me a lot thank you.

Really enjoyed this video and look forward to your future videos. I have recently started keeping snakes and would love to eventually get into breeding. I used to breed several species of fish and loved it so I feel this would be just as much fun. Keep up the good work with the videos.

Thanks for the tip !

Thank you, this made me rethink a lot of things.

THANK YOU! Someone needed to say this. I see too many people jump into breeding with just a spare 10 gallon tank or some such nonsense..

Great Advice , its so easy to get caught up in all the cool morphs and forget about the most basic of things like feed :)

Man, i like ur content! Precious tips for begginer, for me. Im starting with 2 balls for now male and female, i will get another pair this year and we will se how it will develop :) Keeep going man!

This was very educational for someone that really wants to go down that road...but is green. :) Thanks Matt.

Subscribed this was a very good informative video thanks for posting and sharing 😀

Good stuff.....keep up the good work

I really like the idea of this series. You really need to think about things other then new animals when you get snakes. Financing for housing & food is especially important

great video bro. exelent advise, I'm thinking about getting in to the Hobby and this was great to hear thanks

Thanks for the advice.. new at this..

Been watching your videos and I kept forgetting to sub. Well todays the day I remembered.

Thanks man I'm about to move out and get 2 snakes and raise them up for breeding in a few years so any advice is greatly appreciated love your videos man

Hey Matt...I really enjoy your videos. I like the fact that you dont keep secrets and from your trials and errors, you advise of things to DO and not to Do, to us, new future breeders! I listened to what you said..."Dont start big" and it makes complete sense! I was always scared of snakes and i decided to learn more about them and purchased my first ball "Lesser" which it was sold as a pastel calico :) Found out it was not by Garrick Demeyer looking at pictures and told me it was a lesser....lol, well, i loved it and purchased a Super Pastel female( AME), Super Fire male ( Garrick) , Pied female(AME) and expecting a Coral Glow HET Pied ( from Garrick) soon. I love recessives so im planning on purchasing a pair of clowns ( maybe pastels). But my projects are really with the clowns and Pied, hoping to get a killer clown and some coral glow pieds to help me kick start my breeding and ball python business journey on a good note :) My lesser and Super fire are my two good old buddies, even though they are all still within 200 grams, they are sweet as candy! I hope you approve my projects and my number of snakes as a new future breeder :)

as always giving good intel!! I have 35 and just starting out in have everything that I'm interested in. go big or go broke! big enough for me though. thanks!

Yeah I really had a calling for it but didn't know it until I seen snakes that a co worker had and I didn't know they had that many morphs. still learning from you and others and trying to find ways to save on money is the key. I know what I'll produce will already exists but it will be something I helped in the process of making.

That is real true I had a point of time where I could take care of all of my but it gets hectic sometimes because how much I got but I'm not giving up I love it I love my animals and I want to keep doing it

Thank you!!!! Do informative!

amazing vid guys! i may start breeding with only 3 snakes. i could see how the cost of food could get crazy. Thanks for the info. Maybe you could do some vids on breeding start to finish, or how you incubate and stuff like that. Keep it up Matt!

Had um for right at a year and plan on breeding next year but don't want to many starting off

Oh wow that is the ringer champagne I was there when she was fresh hatched! I still have video of it I think! She is gorgeous

Your big rack is not ugly. It does what you need it to do.

I so want a ball python

very good video man I almost had this happen I got that burn out feeling in the beginning and you feel like it's not worth it now I feel like it's easy and nothing.don't really spend much money finally producing and feeding almost for free !

Yeah it does!

Looking back at this video, I now have 2 ball pythons: a lesser and a mojave ball python, and am planning for a pastel and a spider, but that’s gonna take time. By the end of next year, i’ll have maybe 6-7 snakes, slowly building, and i’m gonna be building a rack here soon- making it so that i can stack grow out racks on top of the hatchling one, since mine are just on my dresser in shoebox tubs that will become hatchling quarantine in the future- but i do need to account for eventually breeding rats. Right now i’ve just got f/t from a pet store.

I realized when I got to 5 snakes that there was NO POSSIBLE WAY I was going to be able to stay in this hobby and purchase feeders. Add into your math the fact that hatchling snakes eat every 5 days instead of 7, and when females are building they can become garbage disposals... and I would have gone broke! Can you do a video on your rat-breeding setup? Specifically the racks, how you do your water/food/etc. I know there are some really good videos on KZfaq, but I'm sure your audience could appreciate seeing your setup. Maybe go into how many feeders you would suggest per snake, how you deal with lulls in production (if any), etc. If we are talking about infrastructure, let's help people start right. Just like I would NEVER tell someone to raise a BP in a terrarium, I wouldn't suggest raising breeders in one either... but people do it all the time. Let's help them start off the right way.

You have a vid on how to set up mouse and rat rearing? Where to get rat mouse breeding stock up keep etc.

great video i wish you would have made it ten years ago lmao but all good advice

Gr8 vid guys, could you do a vid on getting into recessive morphs? Right now I only have 0.1 pastel, I only want a 4-6 snake collection.

I know I am super late to the party but is there any videos about the energy costs of rack systems? I have 1 right now my electric bill went up by about 15% in the first month and a solid breakdown would really help me get my overhead sorted out. All my snakes are sub adult I'm still about a year from my first season

I want to make a video request but first off I just want to say your videos are great & informative. I'm definitely a faithful subscriber as of this moment to your channel. I'm sort of new to the hobby & I've only kept 2 ball pythons in the past & got out of it. However, I'm looking into coming back in the hobby & breeding ball pythons. Unfortunately, it's hard to find videos of how to incubate ball python babies & what you do after you cut out the eggs like I have so many questions as to how to remove the eggs from the female if they're sticking , & how long do the new hatchlings that you cut have to stay in the egg and what to do after you cut & open the eggs do I just leave the babies there after they get out I mean just everything regarding the before or after breeding & producing baby ball pythons & what to do after like when do I feed them after they come out the egg? & how long before I feed them & know when they're ready to be delivered to a customer? & how to set up my egg tub with vermiculite & how do I know which is the right position to lay my egg so it's not to turn over the egg and kill the snake before it even hatches. I mean overall just everything in terms of breeding ball pythons & it's before & after on what I need in terms of proper ways to set up vermiculite, incubator temperature & how long do I wait before my babies hatch & my do's and don'ts after they hatch. I hope you find this message & you get back to me it would mean the world to me with my appreciation if you make a video like that thank you so much!

You are such a cute person😘. I enjoy your videos 😜

can you do a video or advice on how to marketing hatchling ball pythons for new breeders

First was a WC male then a pastel then a lesser to more pastels and majove and phantom and a bumblebee

I have 6 ball pythons, a bumblebee, 2 fires, fire ghost/fire hypo, a normal and a pastel. They all live in the same enclosure happily but I need to get a rack system with proper heating and temperature reading and heat tape, but I’m unsure of where to find a good rack system for cheap.

I live in Oregon. An thinking about breeding Green anaconda's. Any feed back would be appreciated.Great video .

I've I sold 1 or 2 rats a month that would cover me for feeding my rats

Did you originally start with normals in the very beginning?

Hey Matt I really love your videos and I'm learning a lot from them. I'm thinking about starting my own business breeding balls. Is there any way I could contact you to ask you a few questions on how to get started? Thanks, Nitsan

Where are the best places to look up information about breeding certain breeds? I don't have a ball python, I've got a Mexican black King, and I gotta wait until my female is like 3 years anyways but I'd like to know where to start looking up things.

where did you guys get those black racks? above your bigger rack. I have 6 ball pythons, and I'm looking for a good rack.

I have a lemon blast in my hands right now what do u think of pairing her with a pied

so i just started in ball python world about 7 months ago and i found this out fast lol i have a pastel male who wont be able to breed for a year or more hes only 2 foot and i have a 3+ foot spider ball i just bought 2 months ago. now when i breed them will 1 look be more dominant then the other? and do you have any pics or videos to what babies might look like?

What morph is it you get out between the champaign and the het ghost spider @5:50

I have a question. What would be a great first snake to get that will be my queen bee snake to breed

So, if you become a rat breeder and people want frozen rats how are you killing them? I live in Texas. We already breed super worms for our bearded dragons. My wife has been very successful with that. So if we wanted to get into breeding rates for our ball pythons what's your suggestion on how to do what your describing?

how many would you say is a good point to start with ? I have 3 girl and 3 boys. my list is: lesser 1.0 spider 0.1 bumblebee 1.0 fire 1.0 butter vanilla 0.1 albino 0.1

you should do a video about how to cost effectively breed rodents

Well said brother. If you guys have a moment check out some of my reptiles.

Curious to why your catch phrase slogan is, “ own the gods “. Are you claiming the serpent as divine?

I was thinking that when I get my two fav snakes the panda pied ball python and a brazilan rainbow boa I wanted to breed them will that work or no

do you sell online or at expos n stuff?

Lmaoo Kirk don't like to talk much you need to put him in the front of the camera one time

What do i get if i breed a female Mojave with a male normal?

Would I be able to start with 1Male and 2 females

Hey Matt, do you ever convert your snakes to frozen? I know you and Kurt breed your own rats I was just wondering if you euthanize them yourselves or what happens

start with small snakes

i have 7 snakes and i want 10. and then im done lmao 🐊🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐉🐶🐸🐡😅😂😂😅😂

Do need a license to breed reptiles

can I buy a snake from you