Decisions!! DECISIONS!

[Anya]

My local pet store is AMAZING. I mean, really amazing. They have a huge snake breeding facility completely apart from the store, and go to expo's and sell around the country, yada yada. They have over 600 eggs incubating right now!! O.O


...Anyway. Since so many hatchlings are coming out, they're blowing out last year's stock. I have an opportunity to get some really nice healthy 300 gram morphs (Male) for 99 bucks! I can only get one. I'm not interested in pinstripes, (4 on sale for price being Pins, Spiders, YB's, and Pastels) but I want to start 2 projects in the upcoming year, An Ivory project, and a Bumblebee project. I absolutely fell in love with this intensely colored Spider today, but I also have the chance to buy a male Yellowbelly. My fem. Pastel is around 800 grams, so I'm thinking with some good steady feeding (previous owner had her on mice still..) she could be breeding weight next year (side question- is this even possible?) Whereas I could NOT afford a 800 gram female YB anywhere...and so I'd have to buy a little female this winter...and it would be quite a few years before I get any ivories. BUT! I think this is a fairly good price, (is it?) and I wouldn't mind making some YB Pastels next year.

Then again, my Pastel has not been sexed by me, or anyone else while she's been in my possession, and there's the horrible possibility she could be a he. I'm taking it on heresay that she's a she right now.

**sigh** I applaud you if you've gotten this far, or made any sense of my ramblings.

What would you do, lol?