So I'm in a quandary. Maybe everybody can help. My fiancee and I were kind of at a lost for what to get each other for Christmas, so we decided to buy a snake together. We have about 1k to spend.

So here are our options so far.

A low white adult piebald female. She's 1500 grams and coming from a local breeder who's getting out of the business. Her final price is 1k. My fiancee is really into piebald and the first snake we bought was a pastel male that's 66% possible het for piebald. Since we figured out what that meant he's wanted to prove him out. However, she's not a great looking pied and honestly, I'm not super into it. I would rather get a younger, better looking female for less money and wait to prove out the male.

A black pewter fire female. She's young, around 250 grams, but gorgeous. The fire in her bolsters our clean up projects and we're both nuts about black pastel. However, we have a couple of black pastels already and we could probably produce one relatively soon. She's 850 from Mike Wilibanks.

Third was my choice. He's a hatchling lesser champange het ghost, with a paradox face from ECRB for 1k. I've wanted to work with champagne for a while now, and even though I'd been really set on Mike's pumpkin line, but they come few and far between. We also have a lot of ghost going on and he helps that project. In addition, lesser is never a bad idea. And then there is his cute paradox face. I feel like that will be a pull to our table come expo time. People love paradoxes. Though, knowing this, I know he's a male, taking up rack space that could be held by a female. And my fiancee feels like champagne is a bad choice for a multi-gene male.

So what do I do? Or any other options that would put us in a new direction or be a valuable twist on one of our established ones? In our price range?

Our collection: So you know!

Males: Pastel 66% Het Pied
Black Pastel Het Ghost
Pinstripe
Lesser
Specter
Super Fire

Females: 2 Normals
Albino
Mojave
Bumblebee
Het Ghost
Yellowbelly
Black Pastel Het Ghost
Lesser
Pastel Yellowbelly
Pastel Ghost
Spider
Lemon Blast
Pinstripe
Pastel Disco