What's your Bread & Butter Morph? Most practical parents for small breeding project?

I think I understand what you're saying. You want your hobby to help pay for itself without having any babies that you end up taking care of for long periods of time because nobody wants them. Is that close? If so I would stick to the lighter and brighter colored morphs. Things like sables or cinnamon's or axanthics are great for ball python aficionados but they're not as well appreciated by your average pet buying public. For instance I've never had trouble selling out of albinos but someone looking for a pet would rather spend 30 bucks on a normal then 100 bucks on a yellowbelly. (interestingly, I usually sell out of normals quicker then anything else but that's mainly due to the low price)

Thanks sho220.
You're right I did reference money too many times. My "cover the rats" comment was a red herring.

Pieds are my favorite, that should be my next snake. Maybe I can replace my vision cages with white boaphiles too.

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I would get 2 visual pied females and 1 male that was visual pied plus a nice gene like fire, yellowbelly, mohave, black pastel, etc.

I think you are right on the money with a pair of pieds. You will produce nothing but visual pieds and they always sell. One clutch of pieds a year should easliy cover the cost of keeping them. Just remember you will not get a clutch each year with only a pair.