Hey all!

So. I am relatively new to the snake world. Most of my experience thus far has been with cornsnakes. I originally actually thought I didn't like ball pythons, but now having met and held a few, I've sort of fallen in love. My husband's fond, too.

So we've been talking about the possibility of adding BPs to the collection and, eventually, breeding them.

The dilemma comes in what to do in terms of investment.

When we talk fantasy snakes, my husband is all about the piebalds. He wants to buy a pair of piebalds with the reasoning that they will reliably produce piebalds, every time. He feels that this is a stable investment and will support expanding into other morphs.

I, on the other hand, am far more interested in seeing what genetics will give me, so would like to go with (example) a pastel pied and a cinnamon enchi. This would mean, of course, that if bred there'd be no pieds in the first clutch, but there'd be a potentially greater diversity then and in the future. IMO, greater diversity=greater appeal if selling and building a name and a reputation. He sees this as setting ourselves up to have a clutch of all normals het pied, which in his book would be a bust. Me, I'd be happy!

Two very different points of view, so I figured I'd ask you guys, who have much more experience and knowledge. Given the means to invest in fantasy snakes, which would you do?

(Yes, we have had the discussion about how it's not about money first.)