Quote Originally Posted by Lateralus_Love View Post
It matters if the normal is a male or female? I thought it didn't matter what morph was what sex, as long as you had the right mix



I think if I had a 1k-1.5k budget, I would get a male Cinny and a couple females (Pastel and another Cinny) and make Pewters and Super Cinny's . Or maybe a male Pastel, and a female Cinny and Spider, but idk if that's in the money range. Or, possibly a male spider, female pastel, female pinstripe!..I've got a little list of what I'd like to acquire within the next few years in order to make the combo's that I want in my personal collection, so I'm full of ideas on this. But my potential cost is going to be in the neighborhood of 10k, 2k alone just for the albinos and pinstripes, not counting the cinny's, quite a few female pastels, spiders, lesser's, etc etc and supplies/tanks or racks >.< But I want to produce that smexy killer bee and pewter someday

It doesnt matter either way you have the same ratio of normals to whatever morph. Female normals are simply more useful cuase they make the babies and are good to breed to codoms to get more morph babies. If you had a pastel male and a normal female you could breed them and get 50/50 pastels and normals. If the female was pastel and the male is normal it almost seems a waste of the female. Males are usually cheaper so to buy your male as the morph he can be used to breed multiple females, so make him the morph. Basically a male is good for more than one breeding but a female is only good for one, so why breed her to a normal, unless you really want more normals. If your budget is tight I would put your investment into male morphs and normal females, this way you will get a better turn around. Meaning you buy some hatchlings.A male pastel for say $150 and a normal female for $75. so you have spent 225. you bred them you get 50/50 pastel/normals. If you did it the other way around you female pastel will probably be 200 or more, male normal will be 50. you have spent more $ for the same ratio of babies. Plus the male is sexually mature faster do if you use the male as your morph he will be ready before your female and could be bred to your current female in the meentime. Now you will have a 1.2 ratio. with 2 females producing 50/50 litters of pastel/normals. Same idea would apply if you want to make bees. Get the spider as a male,he will be around 3-400, the female are closer to 600. get the female as a pastel, she could be as cheap as 200. This way you have your male and female for the same price as you would pay for just the female if you did it the other way around. Basically I think about waht i want to produce then get the male as the higher end morph of that combination. Unless you are making supers or trying to get a ressisive to show from het to het breedings then it doesnt matter since you need the same morph in both sexes.