Opinions on my startup selection

[Sanibelfire]

I have been keeping snakes as long as I can remember. Recently I started seeing a woman who rekindled my interest in breeding and now I've gone from a pastel pair and a Burmese to 10 snakes in about 4 months. I am going to give an overview of my breeding plans and I'd like to know how you guys would go forward or your opinion if I'm making any mistakes.
I should start by saying I am first and foremost a business man. Owning multiple other company's I always have profit in my mind, however doing this has always been my dream job and now that I have money I can approach this venture without having to rely on the profits for anything. So here goes:
.2 pastels around 1200 g
.1 pinstripe around 900 g
.1 Enchi around 850 g
.1 queen butter 360g
.1 pastel 350 g

1. Queen butter 350 g
1. Pastel 1100 g
1. PE line Desert (screamer) 350 g
1. Fire 340 g

Here is my plan for this coming season.
The Desert will pair up with the Pin, Enchi, and I plan on finding a large spider and maybe a Huge normal or another pinstripe. Im hoping for a male desert spider that I can put to some lesser girls in a few years.
The queen butter male will be put to 4 huge normals (yet to purchase).
The fire male was supposed to go with some Vanilla girls to make creams but I'm having a very hard time finding any vanilla girls with any size at all.

I have five 1.2 set ups of ASF with another 5 pairs growing up. I already have close to 100 in the grow out tank and 5 littlers in my original rack, so needless to say I have plenty of feeders for the future of growing my guys up.

Currently all my balls are in a rhino rack setup but my older females are too big for this so I have chosen to go with an ARS rack for adults. I'll be getting this rack here in the next few months, August at the latest when I go to the Daytona show.

Please give me any advice or thoughts you might have as I am never too proud to learn from someone with more knowledge than I have.

Thank you!
Paul

[SNIKTTIME]

Sounds like a strong foundation to me

[snakesRkewl]

The only advise I have is to breed rats, you might find it difficult to sell babies that are eating asf's.

Otherwise your plans seem pretty solid.

[Homegrownscales]

Yes I agree.. Many people don't use or cannot get asf unless it its a special order. I know my area can't get asf unless you want to pay somewhere around 25.00 ea and drive a couple hours away. And then there's area where asfs are illegal.

[Simple Man]

Drop the Fire and Pastel males and add more females. If you really want a Fire and a Pastel you should buy a Firefly or a Super Firefly. This will set you ahead several years rather than trying for two gene animals. You should have only multigene animals for your males since they can breed 4-6 females each. It just makes business sense to invest most heavily into a snake that can pass those genes on to four or five females and possibly combine and create higher gene combos. I would invest in more single gene females unless a double gene female specifically fits your goal and you can fit it in the budget. Just my opinion... You will have more chance at making money since you're into the business side of it. I am a hobbyist and business man myself and I had several good discussions before making the decisions I did for the animals in my signature. Multigene males and lots of single gene females!

I also second the above ASF thing. They are really hard to come by and ASF feeding snakes aren't going to be easy to sell since they can and will get imprinted on ASF. A rat eating snake will always be worth the most with mice still solidly ahead of ASF.

Regards,

B

[Sanibelfire]

The pastel male was purchased a few years ago along with one of the pastel females. I really have no plans on breeding him. I really like the Vanilla Cream and that is one snake I plan on selling to myself haha... So I'm either going to keep him and raise up a vanilla or sell him and buy a super fire female to go with a vanilla male. I'll consider all the thoughts on rats, though I got the ASFs partly due to the reduced odor. My snakes and rats are in my warehouse/office so when I have rats it seems to smell much worse.