Pinstripe potential

Wow, thanks everyone!!!

So I found fire x spider on NERD's site and the adults are a brownish gray with deep chocolate/black spider patterns. I'm assuming that fire x pins would look the same. This could be neat, but if I'm going to spend $600 for a breeder male I'd almost rather get a nice lesser and make kingpins. I just watched some of Ralph Davis' kingpin videos on youtube and they really do age very nicely!

I like butters, too, but I think they are a bit out of my price range. Lessers and fires are pushing it, even. I'll have to hunt around for a good deal and weigh my options that way. A cinnapin would be a more affordable morph to take a stab at, but they aren't jumping out at me. I'll have to try to hunt down photos of adults. I'm also still keeping my eye out for a smoking male pastel just in case.

Thanks for your help everyone! The search continues :)

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Oh, another question: what age/size should be my cutoff for being able to breed this new male next year? I figured any males born in the summer of '08 would be over a year and probably big enough and producing sperm plugs by next season, but that late '08 babies will probably not be in good breeding condition by then. Is this about on par? I'd rather err on the side of caution so I'm not tempted to breed the little guy too early. I really want them to be good and healthy and ready for the demands of breeding.

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A late '08 will be able to breed next season with regular feeding until then. We're just now learning that males can be bred younger and smaller than used to be recommended (as long as you know your animals and don't over-breed/stress them).

Depending on your long term plans you could get a male pin and try to prove out a homozygous pin baby. Sounds like it will look just like a pin but you could do neat things with a homozygous pin like breeding to a homozygous mojave to produce 100% jigsaws.

i would love to see a pic of a woma pinstripe... anyone got one??