What to get with 10K

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Originally Posted by Agent73

If I had the money I'd love to start a Banana Ball Project. http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/banana-ball/

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Isn't that about 10x his budget at the moment?

Personally I would find male morphs that are super forms, double or triple genes, like a BEL, Lesser bee or Queen bee, a killer queen bee wouldn't be bad to have because everything you get would contain the pastel gene. As for pieds it really depends on what you want to produce. It might be an idea to buy a male pied and several females that are het for pied. You could get some pastel or spider females het for pied and have a 25% chance of producing spied or pastel pieds.

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Originally Posted by Kinra

Personally I would find male morphs that are super forms, double or triple genes, like a BEL, Lesser bee or Queen bee, a killer queen bee wouldn't be bad to have because everything you get would contain the pastel gene. As for pieds it really depends on what you want to produce. It might be an idea to buy a male pied and several females that are het for pied. You could get some pastel or spider females het for pied and have a 25% chance of producing spied or pastel pieds.

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Definately what I am thinking. Been looking for a nice killer queen bee. I am being pretty selective. Don't want to get get one to get one. I want to really be selective on how the snakes look and such. Haven't seen many for sale though.

I am possibly thinking of my third foundation being a clown.

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Originally Posted by spitzu

Isn't that about 10x his budget at the moment?

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I'm not 100% on the currentl price of Banana Balls but last I heard they were going for about 10k. Although yeah, now that I think about I doubt he would want to spend his entire budget on 1 snake.

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Originally Posted by Agent73

I'm not 100% on the currentl price of Banana Balls but last I heard they were going for about 10k. Although yeah, now that I think about I doubt he would want to spend his entire budget on 1 snake.

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I could maybe see that for a hatchling female, but I have a hard time believing males are going for that cheap. I'm about to go get a 2nd mortgage if that's the case!

If I were you, I'd get a 3 gene male right away. That'll set you back about $2,500-$3,500 depending on what morphs are involved. Since you like Lessers, I'd say get a Queen Bee or Butterfly.

I'd get 3-4 adult Normal females that will be ready to go in September.

With the rest of your budget, I'd get a Piebald female or two, another recessive female, and if there's anything left, some co-dom females. All hatchlings-yearlings. Depending on what sort of deals you can find. Try to stay away from genes that are already within your foundation male, so you have more of a variety.

In September (or whenever), breed your 3 gene male to your normal girls and hold back all the females you wish.

This, in my opinion, would be the smartest way to spend that budget.

Good luck!! :)

What I would do would be get a male pied and a codom het pied(pastel, lesser, spider ect..) and/or some het females for your pied project say $3000.
I would get a male clown and a codom het clown and/or het clown females for a clown project say $3000 also
and with the remaining $4000 Get a queen bee or similar 3 gene male and some large normals, maybe pastels and some base morph females(fire, enchi, mojave, what ever you like).

You can breed your specific projects (pieds, pastel pieds, clowns, pastel clowns). Then use your 3 gene male queen bee to your big normal females and base morph females when up to size. You can also work your queen bee into those pied and clown projects as well as using your pied and clown males to your other codom females. You could replace clown project with another codom project of your choice if you didn't want to go with a lot of hets...

just my 2 cents..

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Originally Posted by Agent73

I'm not 100% on the currentl price of Banana Balls but last I heard they were going for about 10k. Although yeah, now that I think about I doubt he would want to spend his entire budget on 1 snake.

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You touching a male fro under $20-$25k, IF anyone is selling one. Females are closer to 15k

Get females that are het pied.