Quote Originally Posted by ajakana View Post
I have a female ruppel pastel that's 740 grams and want to breed her when she gains more weight my question is if i bred her to a normal or a het pied what should i expect? i will post of pics of her soon any help and suggestions would be appreciated
Ruppel pastels have the same genetics of all the other pastel lines. If you bred her to a normal you would get 50% pastels and 50% normals, respectively. If you bred her to a het pied you would get 50% pastels and 50% normals, respectively, and all of them wouyld have a 50% chance of also being a het pied.

I would not do either of those breedings. You always want the male to be the nicest/most expensive morph from the pairing, so if the female is a pastel, you want the male to be another co-dom, a homozygous recessive, or a combo. You have some time to get a male and raise him up to breeding weight, and I would get on it. The female Ruppel pastel likely cost 2x the price of a really nice male pastel, so there's no reason to breed her to a normal.

If you breed her to a male het pied, all the babies will have a 50% shot of being het for pied, but you will have to hold back all the females for at least 2-3 years to breed them all back to the male to prove them out. With the price of het pieds these days, that project isn't worth it when you can get a male spider for a not very much money, and make bumble bees with her the first year. Or you could get a male pastel and get super pastels, or a mojave and go for pastaves, etc., etc. Forget about breeding the normal male to anything, and get a nice co-dom or combo male.