I'm finally in a stage of my life where I can realize my dream raising an breeding reptiles. Im want to get into ball pythons as bp morphs is what attracted me to reptiles in the first place.


Now I have set out about 800$ to get start. This is gonna include all the initial equipment at the animals.
I'm not expecting to even break even for at least 2-3 years but I want to get start in the right way and make decision that will lead to me making profit in the future. For now I just want to gain experience raising the animals but I want to make sure the animals I pick will not be worthless or make worthless babies 2-3 years down the road.


As for what morph i want to see in my cages, I like every single morphs tbh and I don't really have one morph specially that I want to go after. So I figure I would start with the basics pastel mojave spider etc that I can build up towards more impressive morphs.


Im going to drop $350 on 4 tub rack from RBI and thermostat. That leaves me with $450 to buy the actual animals.

From my research the consensus seems to be that if I want to work to co dominat/dominant to start with male and if I want to work wth recessive start with females.

Since I want to play around with codom genes I'm thinking I need to start with a male?
I found some people selling proven male bumblebee from 09 for around $200
is it a good idea to start with an older male? I'm thinking of picking up an older proven male for cheap and than pick up 1 or 2 older normal female so in the best case scenario I can breed as early as next year. The males is already ready I just need to get the normal females up to size. Not to mention I will have $100 or so left for rodents and misc stuff I might neeed

am I oversimplifying everything? I keep on thinking that $200 for a bumblebee sounds too good to be true. Or I'm looking at this the wrong way. Any suggestion for this noob is greatly appreciate