I know that it's been said this is a business where being in the know with other top breeders is the key to success but I'm slightly unsure what that means and to what extent. Justin Kolbylka mentions game changing morphs that are never released to the general public on his site. The reason I started this thread though is to find out if any one would share their cook books so to speak. There are 2 different things that this could mean. One is pairings that make the most financial sense to produce the best clutches and least amount of normals, I am not talking about this right now. The second would be passing on visual characteristics to the animals. What are you guys doing as far as breeding to enhance certain projects? I plan on starting several projects operating under the impression that I'm going to have to introduce some seemingly random genetics into the mix in order to produce what I want. For example do you think that NERD's Lemon Pastel is a product of Pastel to Pastel for years on end or could it be Pastel to "gene X" babies bred to "Pastel gene X" to Pastel or something along those lines. I'm wanting to build a really solid collection for the future and while planning these projects I'm having a hard time finding any information on this sort of stuff besides the common knowledge on the genes and what they have a tendency to do. For instance I think that line breeding the characteristics of a Black Pastel Yellow Belly back into the Black Pastels could really enhance a programs Black Pastels after so many generation.