After much debate about my future reptile plans, I'm thinking I might keep it simple(compared to other ideas I had) for now and pick up a pair of western hognose snakes this coming summer.

I want to get a head start on planning finances, housing etc. and was hoping to get some advice from people with hoggies. I think I want to eventually breed to a small degree, but I'm more than willing to get a pair of neonates and wait a few years, so for a while they'd be strictly pets to take care of and handle on occasion.

I don't have many specific questions, but am hoping more for general advice/ideas/suggestions you'd give to someone looking at western hoggies(even pointing me to your favorite care sheet, though if it turns up in google searches I've probably read it already).

A few specific questions though:
1) What morphs are out there? Anything affordable? I'd love an anaconda or albino but the one website I checked out had them in the thousand+ price range, not what I'm looking for.

2) How do you sex hoggies? Probing? Another method? Can it be done right out of the egg? They're so tiny as neonates I can't imagine probing being easy.

3) Personality. From what I've read bites from these guys are extremely rare(many strikes are even "mock" strikes), but are neonates nippy like many other snake species? Are CB western hoggies "showy" by nature? I'd almost kind of like one that hisses and puffs up a bit lol.. The few wild encounters I've had have been neat.

More questions to come if I think of something else
thanks!