Future Bumble Bee price?

I started from the first post and was like "wow... 550 shipped is a terrible price. And I dont remember them being $1000 last year..." Then I saw that this is a thread from 2009...

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Originally Posted by inyrdreamz83

http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/p...3/IMAG0784.jpg

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Sometimes it's difficult to determine with indoor flash pics, but his colors appear clean and yellow. There's no visible dark speckling in his yellow. He has a lot of spots, but i don't mind them. He is a very nice bee. I bet he would look even better if you took pics of him under natural lighting.

What do you guys think of this girl? Just got her last week. She looks pretty clean to me, but this is my first morph. Second pic is a lesser girl I got at the same time. I'll be looking to pick up a male next year, any reccommendations on what a good pairing for these two girls would be?

http://i1355.photobucket.com/albums/...pse818c2df.jpg

http://i1355.photobucket.com/albums/...psc1ee5272.jpg

That Lesser!

As of feb 4 , I bought a female bee decent looking for 300$
sad but I know the prices are still gonna drop

Is the jury still out on needing quality parents to produce quality offspring? It seemed to be the case in 2009, when this thread started. Have many of you produced good-looking (more yellow, less browned-out) babies using darker pastels and spider parents?

I like the analogy "breed the best to the best, to get the best." Peoples' ideas of "best" will vary, but to me, it'd be a snake that most vividly and long-lastingly exhibits the qualities of a morph that set it apart from a normal.

If it turned out that a browned-out pastel would not reliably produced non-browned-out offspring, I would prefer a breedable normal female over it.

Yet, you're talking to someone who's started out her new breeding program with a subadult recessive male morph, no hets, and a dubious female.. but um.. I bred in the past! lol. I had to have this GS male, though; that, to me, is a dealbreaker in all of this. And I fell into getting the possible female, since some friends were looking to part with her. Traded two cleaned animal skulls for her; I have tons of those, so if she is a he, he'll be a treasured pet at any rate.

I've seen males bees go for around 200-250 in the ohio michigan area. Not crappy ones either. I have a female pastel that started out extremely bright and now is starting to brown at around 1000 grams. Little bit bummed but hafta wait and see if it gets any worse.