First Season Back to Breeding

[nikkubus]

I am pretty new to this forum, used another when I was breeding years ago but it's totally dead so I'm trying to introduce myself around here and get to know new people. I bred BP's corns, and rat snakes before but I took a long hiatus because of moving and so much going on in my life. Really glad to be back at it, and with some fresh new projects that I'm really excited about. Morph Market wasn't a thing last time I was breeding, so hopefully the selling part will be a load easier than before!

I have absolutely no idea how the best way to build a good network is really done these days. Seems a lot of breeders are on social media these days, but most of those places explicitly don't allow animal sales and I'd honestly really rather not go that route anyways. Shows are great, but the barrier to entry in my state is really bad. Table is a few hundred, and they require you have a business license here, which bare minimum is going to run $800. That's a huge investment when I don't have a ton to sell and am dealing with hobby-level. So any suggestions on what I can do besides get my butt active on this forum would be great! I have accounts on a few different forums, morph market account, and I have some wholesale contacts that are willing to buy ANYTHING, so I'm not worried about having to sit on babies with nowhere for them to go at least if I'm really having issues.

So far breeding season is going well, lots of great locks. This is what I'm focusing on this year:
-Pied to Cinny and Mahogany Pastel
-Banana Pastel Superstripe to some enchi combo females that each have some acts-like-super yellowbelly type

Hopefully some of my girls prove out to be Asphalt instead of just plain yellowbelly. I'd love to hit some world firsts, which is a good possibility with the banana project. I really love acts-like-super genes because they provide a little of an extra challenge, and with the yellowbelly type ones the various looks are incredible.

So much has changed with BPs since I was doing it before, so many genes it makes my head spin. I don't know how some of the big breeders know so many different ones. I've stuck to really learning about a few different ones that weren't around before and stuff I already knew for right now to get my feet wet again. Coral Glow was pretty new back then and nobody understood how the heck it worked. Now there is Banana, which is basically the same thing, but at least finally someone nailed what was going on. Of course it was always suspected to be sex linked, but what threw people off was that it hopped over now and again. I've dealt with sex-linked in birds plenty, and it even confused me because of that weird ability to cross over from Z to W and W to Z.

Anyways, nice to meet you! I'm going to work at being active here and do what I can to help others even if I'm a little rusty on the breeding part