I purchased a male pied and fell in love with everything ball python. I am acquiring three adult females and will breed the pied to the norms next year giving me all DH (maybe I'll get luck and one "norm" will actually be a het for pied lol).

Anyway, I'll hold back all females and maybe 1 male. My second breeding season, I will re-breed all the norms and hopefully by this time my DH albino/pied python female will be ready to breed with my pied. Again, I'll get rid of males. My third season I hope my lavender albino pied hets will be ready to get it on. Again, I'll re-breed the norms and DH alb/pie to my pie. And the 4th season I hope to have some albino babies!

I'm NOT doing this for the money. But do you think selling off the male each season will be enough to pay for upgrades/new equipment?

Where do you suggest putting some money into right now? I know albinos will always hold their value to some extent...

Would appreciate any advice on my "breeding plan".

I eventually want to end up with:

Lav Alb Pied
Norm Pied
Albino Pied


And I also love:
Caramels, VPI Ax's

I'm just not sure if it is better off to fork over the $$$$ right away for the pure recessives or DH's or go the long way at this point.