What types should a beginner breed with first?

Get a super-nice bumblebee male and a bunch of normal adult females.

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Originally Posted by WingedWolfPsion

Get a super-nice bumblebee male and a bunch of normal adult females.

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Doing it this way would only yield spiders and pastels though. I'd get pastel females or super pastel females. That way the OP could get bumblebees and killerbees also. Much better investment.

Super pastel female babies can easily be purchased for $400-$500 each at shows.

Just look at prices of different snakes and then pick whichever ones you like the look of best and will give you the results of what you would like to produce. Its all about personal preference, you dont need others to tell you what you like, they can only tell you what they like.;) It has nothing to do with being a beginning breeder, any different morph will breed the same as any other so pick what you like.

Whether your a beginner or a seasoned vet the same thing applies. Figure out first what ya wanna produce then pick up the animals that it takes to produce them.

I would go with 4 multi gene females first:

- Lemon Blast
- Pastave
- Bumblebee
- Pewter

These would run about $500 a piece. Then in a year or so I would go ahead and purchase a male super pastel. He would roughly run $350-$400 (they are slowly coming down in price). This would give you a pretty nice starter group with no normal offspring in any of the pairings. Just make sure you get the best example of each morph.

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Originally Posted by snake lab

Whether your a beginner or a seasoned vet the same thing applies. Figure out first what ya wanna produce then pick up the animals that it takes to produce them.

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Yeah thats great advice and I have started doing that. I think I figured out what I want:
Male Pastel
Female Pastel
Female Spider
Female Mojave
Female Pinstripe

These should produce a wide spectrum of good morphs.

Those girls sound great. I wouldnt get a pastel male. Id get a calico male to put to those girls. Calico stuff is super hot. You could do crazy things with a calico to those girls for sure

Nobody here like spiders? :(

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Originally Posted by Natassja

Nobody here like spiders? :(

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Bumblebees are half spider :p

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The girl's line up looks good. However, I wouldn't go for a single gene male unless its more of the rarer morphs. Like snake lab suggested calico. That would be a good choice. But if you're set on pastels, get a pastel combo. Single gene base morph males become obsolete fast.

I suggest a pewter or something similar.

In the mean time, I wouldn't worry about males yet. If you plan in getting hatchling girls, then it would take at least 2 years to grow them up. It only takes a hatchling male a few months to reach sexual maturity. So you can get males next year.

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