Opinions On Breeding Male Normal BCI (Aberrant) From A Business Standpoint?

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@chip07 - Grrr! Damn you for reminding me about the Eclipse! lol I'm never going to have any money again, am I? When I originally started researching Boa mutations and deciding which ones would be my favorites to work with the Eclipse was my very first choice! I got sidetracked with Moonglows and sorta forgot about them. Now, I am rethinking my plans again... Personally, I really like the Motleys, but if i'm going to go through the time and expense of raising up a Motley it would be much more worthwhile in the long run to be growing up a Leopard (which, I also like a lot) as well instead of planning on just putting her with a normal. Maybe I need to come to terms with just keeping my normal boy as a pet... The Eclipse is indeed just a Motley x Leopard, right? I'm guessing there is only a very small chance of getting an Eclipse, though, right? Wouldn't most of the offspring be Motley Het Leopards?

If it's a motleyxleopard pairing they would all be het leopards no visual eclipse. If the motley is het leopard you would get visual eclipse from the pairing. My Motley is a PH Leopard for example. She was only 125 I think it was so I couldn't pass it up. I have no clue if she will prove out or not but I think it would be fun to pair her with my hypo PH leopard male. Bit of a surprise pairing that could give me an eclipse or nothing. I have a Albino Het Leopard male and Hypo dh leopard Albino female for definite leopards in the future. And everyone will be ready around the same time.

If you want to pair him just to do so then that will always be your choice. I wouldn't make it a habit of pairing just any normal up of course but in the end that's always up to you. I would never pair my normal female simply because I don't think she's breeding quality and she has too much sentimental value to risk breeding personally. She's my first boa that I got when I was 13 years old. She's been with me half my life now so I don't really want to risk the chance something goes wrong.

I love the hypos and high quality normals (pastels). My first pairing will be a Hypo x EBV Poss Super Hypo Jungle pairing not anything amazingly high quality but they should produce colorful babies and may just surprise me

I have a new Summit Pastel Poss Jungle Het VPI female that I will probably be spending a lot of money on a male for in the next few years. I was thinking visual Hytec VPI from PP or Redrum lines for her or something along those lines. She's a 2017 so I have awhile to decide. The breeder I was thinking of has a lot of males that I loved but definitely don't have the money for right now.