Hey there, I'm looking for input on newbie mistakes in two areas:

- Starting your collection of morphs with the intent to try breeding at some point. For example, I think I'm going to invest the $ money on two combo morphs off the bat rather than bunch of single morphs that would take much longer to create what I want and have the expense of taking care of more snakes.

- Initial first-time breeder mistakes.

I've been doing a LOT of research into what morphs I'd like in my collection and, eventually, what snakes I'd like to create for my collection. I'm nowhere near buying yet. Instead I'm learning more and more by caring for my normals and spending my money on proper set up for more snakes (decided to build my first snake rack rather than buy one for now and see how it goes), making sure my budget is such that I can care for what I would have (food, possible vet bills, etc.). Since I'm just excited about having the snakes, the only research into selling babies I've done is basically making sure I could sell the ones I don't want so that I don't have the expense of feeding them. I've talked to a pet store about taking baby normals in exchange for rats and think I have that set up for the future, if necessary. I'm not too concerned about being able to sell any morphs I might be lucky enough to produce but don't want to keep. That would all be far in the future anyway. Mostly I'm trying to lay out all the possible things that could go right, things that can go wrong so I can prepare. I don't want to have snakes I can't care for by getting over my head. Its easy to do, I think!

Lastly, is it stupid to buy my snakes based on temperment? Obviously, I'm not going to pay for a bad example of a morph but I'm interested in a small collection of pets that I can potentially breed to make more cool pets. I like hanging out with them so I think my focus might be different than someone totally focused on the business aspect of breeding. If I had a choice between two fireflies, one a great example of the morph but nasty and one a good example of the morph but more docile and easier to make a people-friendly snake....I'd choose the good snake over the great snake. Is that foolish? I keep imagining the look on the breeders face when I say, "Send me the friendlier one."