I had a decent small and diverse group of recessive and co-dom BPs before I joined the military. Since I decided to join I had to sell my collection, tear...

This year will be my first actually producing eggs (hopefully). In the beginning I started out with simple dreams of buying a perfect spider male (one of my personal favorites) and breeding him to a normal female or two in due time. Now he has grown to around 800 grams in about a years time and I have acquired many more morphs than originally planned (as you can see in my signature). I have been endlessly searching for females I "need" to have and I don't want to over do it. This year alone I plan to add to my collection many more females: albino, lesser, enchi, 3 normal breeders, and depending on the quality, a fire, YB pastel, and pastel hypo.

To most (not reptile people) this seems like a lot, I feel like I need to acquire as many females as possible to have the best results years down the road. Am I fooling myself? Should I take it slow, or go big or go home? All of these animals I am looking to acquire will have proper housing, temps, and food, these are the basics. I have been doing this too many years to skimps on husbandry. I'm not looking to make my money back, especially in the first 4 years. I would hope that after that time I would at least be able to pay for food and electricity to justify my habits. I just want to know I'm not kidding myself having this many snakes without actually producing one...

It has always been one of the all time things I need to do before I die, to hatch out a healthy BP or reptile in general. I was wondering how the majority of you started breeding, and the amount of animals you had (BPs or other) before producing.

Let me know!