Which should I get for him?

I have a pied male that is 66% for ghost. I want to get a visual hypo female to breed him with, but I am wondering should I get a co-dom hypo and raise her up and breed them, or find a large hypo female and just go with it for next year?

I really like honeybees but not sure of the availability or market price on them, and POG's are a cheaper alternative, but again, I am unsure of the price. What would you guys do? If I get the honeybee and he doesnt prove out, hey, I will get spiders that are DH for hypo and ghost anyway, so that would NOT be a bad thing at all right? Same with the POG, nice co-dom DH. Those could be powerful breeders later down the road. I didnt want to get a het or PH just to increase my odds on proving him out.

Hmmm, no opinions?

Not sure how to edit a post yet, but I noticed I put DH for hypo and ghost, I meant hypo and pied obviously

Hi,

Well it really does depend on how you feel about the possible outcomes.

The spied is an amazing looking animal to my eyes - but what would the ghost gene really bring to it?


dr del

Definately go for a Honeybee. You can't loose with that.

There is a female Honeybee for sale on Fauna for 1600
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...light=honeybee

I like the spied alot more, not a more common one you see for sale.

I it were me and his is just me.. I'd get a DH. Nosence in wasting that pied gene on a codom that isn't het pied. Just to hit possiably hit honey bees het pied..

I think I am going to go with a honeybee in the near future. I am buying a Killerbee right now and its got my extra $$ locked down. I think a ghost spied would be awesome looking. Since POG's are much cheaper, I may look into one later in the year as well. Anyone make a ghost bumblebee yet?

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Originally Posted by tims balls

I think I am going to go with a honeybee in the near future. I am buying a Killerbee right now and its got my extra $$ locked down. I think a ghost spied would be awesome looking. Since POG's are much cheaper, I may look into one later in the year as well. Anyone make a ghost bumblebee yet?

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I am with Dr. Del on this one. The ghost spied is a five (2+2+1) gene animal...and I think of all the other five gene animals I could possibly make....the marginal gain of adding the ghost gene into the spied seems small compared to the amount of work it will take.

Just my opinion.

JonV

Well, what would you guys go for then? First things first, I need to prove him out. I just figured a co-dom hypo would be the way to do it because worst case, I will have co-dom DH's. Now in a perfect world I would buy a ghost genetic stripe and shoot for a triple het, but money isnt that good right now!