I'm getting ready to move back down to California in about a year. I want to get back into school, but I also want to start keeping snakes again. One of my long held dreams is to breed my own killer clown. I've kept snakes off and on for nearly a decade, with the only real break having been in the last two years due to the fact that I've been moving around a lot. I caught the bug early on and have wanted to breed ball pythons for a long time.

I'm assembling a list of snakes I would like to aquire in the first year or so after I move. I'm debating whether to get a pair of pastel het clowns or get a pair of pastel het clowns. I browse a lot of breeders websites and obviously a visual clown as oposed to a het will always be more expensive. I also know that with the odds the payoff of getting a pair of pastel het clowns in order to hit the killer clown are long. I don't want to be impatient, but getting at least one visual clown would up the odds quite a bit. The question is, if I have say 3 to 5,000 to spend on an initial collection of sankes, would it be worth the price difference to get a male pastel clown versus a male pastel het clown.