A thing to remember when your breeding recessive genes that my distributor tipped me out on. Any recessive morph that you breed to a normal, should be strictly with that normal. The reason being, that the normal (if a female) can retain the sperm for the next year.

So for example. I am breeding my male ghost (recessive) to my normal female. I shouldnt breed her to any other male that I have because she can retain the sperm from the ghost if I try to breed her with my pewter the following year. Any normals that appear out of clutch when I breed her to my pewter might not be normals, but actually can be het for ghost. Its interesting.

As far as not having anymore normal females, I tend to disagree with that. Especially if you have a pewter. Normals are inexpensive and will deliver for you if you have a wonderful additional like the pewter. I just think its wonderful that you can have three normals to breed a pewter to, have 3 clutches of eggs with tons of options available to you. Remember! You can always breed whatever babies (ex. pastel) back to your pewter and start the morphing process again. Its an inexpensive way to get the snakes you want, without the initial cost.

Not to knock your option on pieds, but I hear that they are quite tempermental on feeding. Right now my distributor that has had his for years trying to breed (believe me hes a pro at this) tells me that this is his last year trying to breed pieds or hes getting rid of his entire collection of them. He says that they are usually slow eaters and hard breeders. If you do intend to go with that breed, I would say that to wait till you get a little more experienced. My husband loves pieds, but after hearing an expert tell us that they are tempermental at eating and breeding, I think we are going to stay clear.

Albinos, I think that if you got a het female and a visual showing male would be an awesome project. Yet I'm a more lavendar albino girl. However, I'm probably the dum dum that would pay for both a visual male and visual female. hahaha.

Super pastels are beautiful animals. My friend just got his first snake and it just so happens to be a pastel. So, I have every intention in "borrowing" him (hahaha) to breed him to my female pastel when he is ready. I think it will be nice to be able to use him and my pewter to make sure I get some nice options.

The morph options are growing and the options on getting nice animals are always attainable. Its all about the initial cost. I would definately start looking at building a rack, your going to need it. I just built mine for $130 with the heating and the supplies.