Best starter morph?

[Darkice]

If you have 1k to spend get a few Mojaves and yellow bellies. Should be able to get a pair of each

[nicktreb]

Female Lesser!! Then no matter what happens you know your're well on your way to hatching some of your own BEL's.

[euphuistical]

Since we got a thread on it, I'd like some input on my starting collection. I haven't bred anything yet, just trying to get a good foundation.

1.1 pastel (male is ready to breed, female is only 250g now)
1.1 mojave (male is only 200g, female 300g)
0.1 spider (she is at around 900g)
1.0 ghost (480g)
0.5 normal (3 nearing the 1400g mark, two around 900g)


I am a big fan of all of them, but I've been thinking of maybe selling the ghost for an enchi or cinnamon or something. Any thoughts on that? But I know down the line ghost bumble bees and ghost pastels and pastaves would be quite cool. Just any advice on what males and females would be best to add would be appreciated.

[nicktreb]

Since we got a thread on it, I'd like some input on my starting collection. I haven't bred anything yet, just trying to get a good foundation.

1.1 pastel (male is ready to breed, female is only 250g now)
1.1 mojave (male is only 200g, female 300g)
0.1 spider (she is at around 900g)
1.0 ghost (480g)
0.5 normal (3 nearing the 1400g mark, two around 900g)


I am a big fan of all of them, but I've been thinking of maybe selling the ghost for an enchi or cinnamon or something. Any thoughts on that? But I know down the line ghost bumble bees and ghost pastels and pastaves would be quite cool. Just any advice on what males and females would be best to add would be appreciated.

Nice collection so far! If it was me and i was selling the ghost to go with a co-dom or dom morph, it would have to be a female and most likely a pinstripe.

[irishanaconda]

well i really think peids are a strong investment and you can pick up a decent size pair for less than that. honestly if it were my choice id get a double het albino pied male, (eassily found for 300$), and a 07 het pied female (around 700$) and work ur magic on some poss double hets plus maybe a visual pied or two. since single morphs are becoming more and more popular i think its wise to invest in some double morphs, or things of the such, for other breeders doing the same. i have 6 eggs from het piedX50% het caramel im going to have fun with real soon lol. its a long shot but at least i know ill get some poss het pieds.

[Freddiesinmyseat]

after thinking about it a bit more, I'm considering a recessive trait morph (or 100% het), some poss hets for same trait and a dom/codom.

probably something like this:
1.0 axanthic (100% het axanthic)
0.4 50% poss. het axanthics
0.1 spider

that way I can prove out the poss hets the first year while getting some spider poss het axanthics as well. then if any of the females prove out, I could take the spider poss hets and breed them to the proven females (if there's any males) by the next year to 2 years and get some axanthic spiders.

within the following years I could also invest in some pastels, pinstripes, or otherwise and breed them to the axanthic spiders for say bumblebee 100% het axanthic.

I will, however, have to keep in mind that the recessive traits need to be from compatible lines.

thanks for all of your guys' and gals' input. can't wait to get to these upcoming expos