New guy questions.

Hello fellow snake enthusiasts,

I am new to the forums and new to the snake owner aspect. I have grown up around friends with snakes my whole life but my grandmother is afraid of them so was never allowed to own one. I have taken care of older BP's for extended periods of times for friends but never had my own. Well a few weeks ago I picked up my own pastel female. I love her, but now I want more. I would like to snag another female to raise up so eventually I can move into some hobby breeding. What would be a good morph on the cheaper side that I can pick up a male in the future that would go with both pastel and the new girl? Thanks for your input!
-Nick

P.S. Whats the easiest way to get a picture on here?

Congrats on the new snake, and welcome to the addiction! :P

If you're looking to just breed for fun, I'd go with any co-dom or dominant morph, because they're easier to produce visuals. That way you can see if you want to continue with some recessives that are longer-term projects or not.

And to get pictures on here, you can create a photobucket or other picture hosting website for free, and put the pics you want up there, then copy/paste the IMG code onto a thread or post.

you could always go pinstripe, mojo, pastel, it all depends on what you like and what you want to produce.

Best way to get a picture on here that I know of is to host it on photobucket or some other image hosting site and pasting the [img][/img] link in here.

Check out this genetics calculator http://www.snake-zone.com/genetics/wizard/ . You could go a couple of ways with this... to keep costs low, you could get just a simple normal to give you about a 50/50 split of normal and pastel offspring. You could also get another dominant/codominant morph which would cost you more but you would get a wider variety of offspring.

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Originally Posted by TrpnBils

Best way to get a picture on here that I know of is to host it on photobucket or some other image hosting site and pasting the [img][/img] link in here.

Check out this genetics calculator http://www.snake-zone.com/genetics/wizard/ . You could go a couple of ways with this... to keep costs low, you could get just a simple normal to give you about a 50/50 split of normal and pastel offspring. You could also get another dominant/codominant morph which would cost you more but you would get a wider variety of offspring.

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...don't breed a normal male to a morph female....

Spider or Pinstripe males are my two picks for you. Can get some great combinations with both!

Spider! My favorite. Then you can get one of these:

http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/l...photo-37-5.jpg

:D

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Originally Posted by OhhWatALoser

...don't breed a normal male to a morph female....

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Why not?

I would get a spider, pinstripe, cinny or butter! Depends what you like because you got to look at it everyday! A nice pastel male will go with these and your female!

Thanks for the responses. I think I am going to look for a pinstripe female then maybe a spider male late next year or so. I love the look of the spinners and bumble bees.

Here is my baby girl!

Monty
http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/...s/photo2-1.jpg

http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/...BPs/photo1.jpg