Hey BP fans, I owned a normal female way back in high school over ten years ago, and gave her away when I went to college to a good friend (who still has her!). Since then, I've cared for a few BPs in semi-rescue situations, since I breed geckos and people consider me the go-to 'reptile girl' for when they need to give up a pet. I've gotten them all feeding properly and sent them on to different homes. My most recent roommate had a nice pastel male, but she had to move out, and her snake went with, and I was surprised that I missed having an easy handleable reptile, since most of my geckos are 'look but don't touch', aside from the cresties. I started to think I'd like to pick up a snake again, so I got thinking about doing a BP side project.

I find albinos to be the most visually striking, so I thought I'd go with that to start, but I was going to wait til my local expo in January to pick one up. However, there's a pinstripe 2012 girl available locally for $175, so I was considering grabbing her and picking up an albino male at the expo. Would albino/pinstripe be a good 'starter' pair? From what I've read, it looks like a recessive/dominant pairing that would give me a good selection of albinos, pinstripe and maybe albino pinstripe, but I'm new to this, so any tips would help. Also, what's considered a good price for either? If I can find a cheaper female at the expo, should I wait?