What to buy? Advice, please!

[Simple Man]

Lemon Blast, Super Pastel, and a Pewter females!

Regards,

B

[zues]

Pinstripe Orange Ghost 1500
Pastel Lesser 800
Cinnamon Pewter pos het pied 700

All of these are listed on Kingsnake right now.

[Redneck_Crow]

Thanks for the suggestions!

I'm keeping an eye out for a nice lemon blast and/or firefly female. Most of what I'm seeing in these is male, but hoping to catch one.

I've got a mojave female, so I think I'm going to be looking for a male next year that carries the other half of the blue eyed leutistic. Butter, lesser, or mojave are all OK with me, but I'd like to find one with pastel as well.

Pewter is a good possibility as well. I'm thinking along the lines of taking a pewter female or lemon blast female, breeding it to the pied male I eventually get, then if I'm lucky enough to get a lemon blast or pewter male crossing it onto my visual pied female.

I like the superpastels nearly as much as I do the fireflies and yb pastels. Male or female, I'm going to have to pick something like that up.

[kylesreptiles]

I wish I was in your predictament lol. Looks like you almost have exactly what you want in mind so good luck with find great examples of the morphs

[FINGAZZ]

I'm going to be getting my females for future breeding this year. I don't want more than 6 females to start with. At most I'll probably keep 12 breeder females eventually. It's going to be a hobby for me, not a business. I want to get started on it now so that I can spend my dotage (10 years away from retirement) happily cleaning up snake turds.

So far I have a visual pied female, a het pied female, and a mojave female, all 2010s and growing like weeds. I'd like to start breeding 2013 or 2014.

I'm only getting 3 females this year, and the snake-buying budget is a max of $3000 for 3 more girls. I'm not into albinos, carmels, or spiders--nothing wrong with them, they just don't do much for me. I've got the female end of the blue eyed leutistic covered, and the pied covered.

The males will be bought in 2012 or 2013, and I'll be buying older proven breeders and giving them a year's quarrantine. I've got a $4000 budget for the guys. One for sure is going to be a visual pied, one is going to be either a superpastel or pastel yb, and one I'm not sure of yet--has to have something in the blue eyed leutistic complex mixed in there somewhere. If the guys carry any other genes and I can swing it to up my budget, I'll go for double or more gene animals. But we'll see.

So what females do you think I should be looking for within my budget? I want to get 3 visual morph females this year, single or double codom or dominant, that would give me the possibility of making a good variety of morphs with my chosen males. Whatever I get will be crossed with pieds at least once to get the het pieds to breed later to make pied versions of the morph. (Forgot to mention--I'm nuts about pied combos)

I already have set aside money for a couple of Boaphile ballroom racks and I have hatchling/juvie racks. I've also budgeted for incubators and rats.

I'm just looking for how you think I should spend my $3000 budget to get the 3 females that will give me the most versitility to make nice combos starting out. I figure at least a couple and probably three years of raising them up before I start breeding.

WELL IM NEW TO THE WHOLE BP.BREEDING THING BUT WITH YOUR BUDGET YOU CAN GET ALOT FOR A LITTLE.I PICKED UP A ALBINO FEMALE 700 GRAMS FOR $250,2 HET PIEDS MALE AND FEMALE FOR $50,2 PASTELS MALE AND FEMALE FOR $200,A FIRE FEMALE FROM A PET SHOP FOR $50 THEY DIDNT KNOW WHAT THEY HAD.LOL.A SPIDER MALE AND CINNY MALE FOR $300,GOT A FEMALE NORMAL FOR FREE,HET ALBINO MALE FOR $40.THEY KEY IS AND I KNOW THIS SOUNDS MEAN OR BAD BUT ITS HOW YOU REALY LOOK AT IT.THE KEY IS FIND PEOPLE WHO NEED OR HURTING FOR MONEY THERE OUT THERE AND BOOM YOU GET LUCKY.I GOT 4 SNAKE FROM ONE GUY WHO WAS GONNA START BREEDING BUT NEEDED MONEY PUT A ADD ON CRAIGS LIST AND I CALLED A GOT THEM THE SAME DAY.SAME WITH THE REST OF SNAKES TOO.NEVER MEET THEM SOME PLACE BECAUSE ITS GOING TO BE A BAD DEAL AS I LEARN WHEN I PAID 120 FOR A SPIDER THAT DIDNT LOOK TO GOOD BUT TOOK A CHANCE TO SEE IF I CAN BRING HIM BACK BUT IT WAS TO LATE FOR HIM AS HE PASSED AWAY.I WAS SO UPSET BECAUSE I WANTED TO BRING HIM BACK SO BAD.MY POINT IS THERE ARE DEALS ARE OUT THERE JUST HAVE TO FIND THEM BUT WITH YOUR BUDGET YOU CAN GET ALOT OF NICE BP TO MAKE MORE GEMS.THIS GUY HAS SOME NICE DEALS http://royalconstrictordesigns.com/i...e=ball-pythons

[stratus_020202]

Dude......caps. There is no need to yell. You can use your indoor voice.

[FINGAZZ]

Dude......caps. There is no need to yell. You can use your indoor voice.

LOL.....im so sorry i was yelling.i didnt mean to hurt your ears (Dude). wow caps police are still around.never got why it bothers some people.its all read the same way.(KEY WORD) READ. again sorry and will keep in mind to not leave caps on.

[stratus_020202]

LOL.....im so sorry i was yelling.i didnt mean to hurt your ears (Dude). wow caps police are still around.never got why it bothers some people.its all read the same way.(KEY WORD) READ. again sorry and will keep in mind to not leave caps on.

I was being friendly about it. But, no it does not read the same. All caps is harder to follow than normal type. It's stressful on the eyes. I'm glad you are so nice about it.

[FINGAZZ]

I was being friendly about it. But, no it does not read the same. All caps is harder to follow than normal type. It's stressful on the eyes. I'm glad you are so nice about it.

no worries friend.wasnt trying to be nasty maybe if i put my glasses on it would be easy for me to read as well.bad habbit of mine with caps always on.but thanks for the heads up and problem fixed.

[ace_singapore]

Back to the topic! I like your plan and that was what I had in mind originally: to have just five breeding females. Now I find that's the hardest plan to keep.

If you like pied combos I am surprised that you don't want the hottest pied combo which is albino pied, in my book, in your wishlist. Anyway, I will try to get a nice Enchi combo female within the budget if I were you, good luck.