What is my 1900g Pinstripe worth???

[jsmorphs2]

I agree, price wise its a good deal but you really have to think about what you are getting, what you need to produce the morphs you want, and add in all your time not to mention if you get attached to your pets.

Looking at you collection in your signature, if you traded your pied female you would have 2 males (pied/het pied) and no females for a pied project. If you wanted to produce pieds you'd be at a loss (time and money wise). Also, you have 3 poss. het clown females, those are pretty good odds if you wanted to try to produce your own clowns with your het clown male. The pewter male would be a good idea to pair with your cinnamon. If I were you I wouldn't trade your girls. You can find pewter males for sale that are reasonable and you still have time so you could get a baby and raise it up to breeding size. That's my spin on it.

Good luck. What ever you decide, its what you want that counts.

[Kevin_Hornby]

Hell if you are around DFW I got a spider that would like to meet your Pin

[aarondm]

My 3 poss het clowns aren't eating and wont be to size next year. And I really want to breed clowns. My male pied is getting my axanthic girl and I'll probably pick up a couple het pied adult females this summer, instead of waiting 2 yrs for my female pied to mature. This will be my first year breeding... hope i'm not barking up the wrong tree. Thanks for the advice guys

[kc261]

I was leaning towards "I wouldn't do it" until I read jsmorphs2's post. It hadn't occurred to me to look at your collection, but looking at it, I agree with that post entirely. So now I'm much stronger in the "no way" camp.

Most of the "value" that you'd be receiving is in 2 things. First the clown female. But you already have 3 phets, and between the 3 it is extremely likely that at least one is het and then you'll be able to produce your own clowns. Admittedly, not as many with a het as with a visual, but you'd be trading away your ability to produce pieds at all.

Second is that the 2 males are big proven breeders. However, while I know they do sell for more, I'm not convinced there really is that much more value in proven breeder males than there is in hatchling males. I have not personally done this, in fact I haven't done any breeding at all yet (next year!), but I have seen so many posts about so many different people growing up a hatchling male and having him breed his first winter, that it seems reasonably likely that if you tried it, you'd be successful at it too. If I'm wrong about this, hopefully someone with more knowledge and experience will say so.

So I say if you want an albino and pewter male, buy hatchlings this year. Hold on to your big pin girl. She is worth more as a breeder than she is in cash or trade.

[aarondm]

Hell if you are around DFW I got a spider that would like to meet your Pin

mmmm, a nice batch of spinners would be nice. Sorry, Minneapolis here