We've actually been planning out what we would like to get! I'm pretty excited, because both of our families are totally on board and willing to help out!

Though I think we are waiting until we are married and move in together before we start collecting our snakes. We might pick up some females early on to give them a couple years to grow though! We have the money and space enough for BPs, so why not? Gives us more time and practice raising snakes and gives me time to let the boys I want go down in price!

I'm thinking the amount of money I want to save up for our initial breeding investment is 5000 dollars with as few snakes as possible, not including the caging. We want to work with clowns(I'll get my king clown, dangit!) and pieds to start with, but worked in some co-doms to the mix.

For the clown breeding I want one visual clown and one lesser het clown. I'm not sure which would be the better to be male/female. I was thinking the male could be the lesser het because we could also get a female pastel het clown and shoot for pastel lesser clowns. But the pastel could be replaced with any of the codom morphs het for clown that I fancy at the time, I'm not too into pastels anyway(except as a little kick in multi gene morphs)

As far as the pieds, I only want to work with some of the morphs that keep a little pattern. I'm not too fond of the spieds, but I love things like the pumpkin pieds. To start though I think we'd get a group of pieds(2 normal het pied girls, a yellow belly het pied girl, stuff like that) and possibly a visual pied male, or a double gene male that compliments the ladies.

After that though, we're thinking of expanding to non bp breeding. I'd like to work with some of the lesser worked with snakes. I like rhino ratsnakes and a lot of the Australian pythons. My ultimate goal is to breed Olive Pythons, so I know I'd need to get a female early since they need to be like, 5 or so before they will breed. I'd like to work with a mix of my favorite snakes as well as snakes that are mostly wild caught in the industry, maybe help lessen the amount of pressure put on the wild population.

We never really want to get TOO big of a collection, though we might hold a few high quality babies back and expand to include more morphs/species, I know snakes can be quite a full time job, but so can my other passion- illustration. I'm hoping if I get at this slowly I can find a good balance where I have time for both of my passions! Maybe breeding the snakes while having my artwork on the site can help get me commissions?


Just sort of random daydreams about joining in on this fun hobby. Seeing my favorite morphs hatch out of their eggs from my own breedings sounds too good to be true

And I know life can change, these plans might all change one day. I might straight up buy my king clown, I might fall in love with a new morph or new species altogether. I might decide to spend 1000, or even 10,000 to start up! The whole breeding thing might never happen, or I'll only have a single breeding pair as a hobby. But it's still fun to have a plan.

Anyone else who hasn't started breeding yet but wants to have their own plans and dreams? Or if you do breed, how did your original 'plan' change when you finally got your animals?