Highway stock

[JodanOrNoDan]

Ok, so I'm trying to fill my rack and solidify my breeding plans for next year. My BEL/REL projects will continue (these are what I like) but this year I though about actually trying to turn a profit. So I started looking at stuff. Passed on scaleless. Passing on CG. Looked at bamboo but I am not finding any good stock. I ran across some Highway stuff. I am personally not a big fan but my wife really likes it. I found a male Fire Highway that looks promising for around 2k. The plan would be to put him with 1 pastel, 1 killer bee, 1 normal and 1 breeding size yellow belly that has yet to be acquired. I have two concerns. 1. I have not worked with gravel, yellow belly, or fire and I am questioning my ability to tell exactly what is in the offspring. I have heard that it is hard to tell yellowbelly and gravel apart let alone putting pastel and fire into the mix. Concern number 2. Am I two late into the "Highway Game"? I don't mind dropping 2k, but it would be the most I ever spent on a single snake. Will the gravel/highway market remain good enough to recover the investment providing the male is not a dud?

[Seven-Thirty]

It depends on your entire breeding stock. Im not entirely sure about gravel combos cause for some reaosn they are non existant. Highway combos on the other hand are very scarce compared to others and will stay a bit up there for the time being considering a highway is almost akin to a recessive project in that it only applies in super form. (Gravel x Yellow belly) As for identifying morphs, that comes with research and practice. Before i couldn't tell a mojave from a normal but now i can identify morphs in combos and in single gene animals quite well. (Imo anyway)

[JodanOrNoDan]

It depends on your entire breeding stock. Im not entirely sure about gravel combos cause for some reaosn they are non existant. Highway combos on the other hand are very scarce compared to others and will stay a bit up there for the time being considering a highway is almost akin to a recessive project in that it only applies in super form. (Gravel x Yellow belly) As for identifying morphs, that comes with research and practice. Before i couldn't tell a mojave from a normal but now i can identify morphs in combos and in single gene animals quite well. (Imo anyway)

Most of my stock are BEL complex(mojave, lesser, phantom), lavender albino, and normal albino. I started picking up adult pastel females because I have been getting them for not much more than normals. The plan has been to get a valuable Super or ALS to put up against the pastel mammas. Originally I was going to breed my Super Mojave spider to them but pastaves are dirt cheap right now.

I know what you mean about experience with the particular morphs. I used to have a hard time telling a phantom from a mojave. Maybe once I have the animals in hand it will be easier. Right now though I have a hard time identifying yellow bellies in pictures let alone telling a yellow belly from a gravel with fire and or pastel mixed in.