Quote Originally Posted by PythonWallace View Post
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.
Why do you want the male to always be the nicest?