Investment morphs?

[ssscales]

What are considered the best BP investment morphs today?
I know, "breed what you like and want to see in your collection".

But, I just want to know for example: what would you buy if you had $10,000-$12,000 to invest? Also, imagine you already had 10-20 normal females that will be ready next season.

I myself don't like putting all my eggs in one basket, so I would rather look at 2-3-4-5 different morphs. Say a Pied, Spider, Pastels, Ghost and Albino.

[Emilio]

I think I'd start with an albino , Then pied which would leave me with about $1,000 dollar's. That's starting with $10,000 , the last thousand I'd try to get a deal on a Hypo(ghost).I already have my pastel if I didn't I would replace the hypo with a pastel.

[AK4900PA]

I think I'd start with an albino , Then pied which would leave me with about $1,000 dollar's. That's starting with $10,000 , the last thousand I'd try to get a deal on a Hypo(ghost).I already have my pastel if I didn't I would replace the hypo with a pastel.

That is exactly what I am doing except with hets since I don't have $10k to drop on snakes. I purchased a pair of het albinos, then a pair of het piebalds and I'm looking at getting a pair of het yellow ghosts next week. Once I get a few clutches produced and make back some of my money I really want a pair of het clowns also.

[Emilio]

Clown's are very cool , I'm also going to take the long route with het male's for pied and albino.But however long it take's I'm going to do it , I'm in the process of saving money to buy my second home.In my case it would be irresponsible to just hurry up and waist to much money.

[Emilio]

Also my het's will be purchased in Daytona.

[ssscales]

You could probably get a Pied for $4000-$5000 and the Albino around $1500-$1750. If buying both and more from the same source you may be able to negotiate a bit less. Spiders are already at about $2500-$3000 from what I can see.

I'm thinking:
2.0 Albino = $3000
0.6 Het Albino = $3000
2.0 Spider = $5000
2.0 Pastel = $1000
Total = $12,000

Sell just enough of the babies to buy 2.0 Pieds & 0.6 Het Pieds, hold back the rest to work on more Albinos, Spiders, Pastels as well as Supers, Bumble Bees at just about the time your Pieds come of age to add some Pieds as well to your collection. At that point sell off just enough to recover initial investment as well as add a few more different morphs.

[frankykeno]

Maybe it's all your eggs in one basket thinking but personally I'd go for a Pewter (aka Pewter Pastel) male. I saw that The Snakekeeper has a male on their site for 10K. Now I'm no genetics expert but according Markus Jayne's site this is a morph that can do some serious stuff. Here's the link but it sure impressed me with what it can produce when crossed with normal females or other morphs.

http://www.ballpython.ca/collection/pewter/pewter.html

http://www.ballpython.com/page.php?topic=available

Someone please chime in (hopefully Kara LOL) but isn't one of the Bees like that, a tripe threat type morph that can produce different visible morphs all from the same clutch?

[gncz73]

well i spent a little more then that but heres what i bought
0.1 spider 5000
1.0 pastel 1500
1.0 mojave 7500
1.1 het peid 1200
0.6 normals 600?
and one freedom rack 2800
and two jason jungle racks 600
and thats how i spent 20000
but if you want to make you money faster and you have all those females i would buy
1.0 spider 3000
1.0 pastel 800
1.0 mojave 3000
1.1 clown 2500

[ssscales]

We've got the females and we can build the racks out of Melamine and save some $$$ there. I'm not focusing on making my money back right away, but looking at 3-5-10yrs. Hence holding back 60-90% of the morph and het offspring in the 1st 3yrs of breeding as future breeders.


I plan on trading/purchasing some along the line to diversify bloodlines as much as possible. I know I want to have a nice colony of Pieds, Albinos, Spiders, Pastels, Super Pastels and Bumble bees as a foundation and go from there.

[gncz73]

We've got the females and we can build the racks out of Melamine and save some $$$ there.

well this is a good place to save money and spend on more morphs


I plan on trading/purchasing some along the line to diversify bloodlines as much as possible. I know I want to have a nice colony of Pieds, Albinos, Spiders, Pastels, Super Pastels and Bumble bees as a foundation and go from there.

sounds like me my first few years i too will be tradeing but i'm tradeing to get more morphs abd it you want bees then you have got to invest in spiders and pastels even if you but just one male of each and breed to get the females. thats what i want a bumble bee and thats why i bought a male pastel and female spider that i'm hopping will be breeding this year it might be close as she 900 grams