In a few years, when you're ready to breed, your tastes for morphs may be completely different.Originally Posted by iloveleucie63
I would recommend first getting yourself a small rack (either buy or build) and get you a small collection of females and grow them up. I started in 2005 buying normal females as babies and raising them up. The experience that I gained working with several different animals with different personalities, likes and dislikes was invaluable.
People can give you all the advice in the world, but nothing compares to personal experience. A year before you're ready to breed, take a look at what morphs are priced then and see what you'd like to work with then. By that time, you may even have the money saved to get you a combination male, like a bumblebee, which when bred to a female could produce spiders, pastels, bumblebees and normals (as an example).
Also be planning for a baby rack during that time for housing any babies that you will be producing, and building an incubator. All of this costs money - you can't scrimp on things like a quality thermostat (which will run you $100 or more if you go with a proportional thermostat like a Herpstat or Helix to run your incubator). With my modest collection, I've got about 8 thermostats between the incubator and racks. Not cheap, but 100% necessary. And, I'll be buying another one very soon, because I need to make yet another rack.
$125 is a very small amount of money compared to the money you still need to invest in animals, vet care, husbandry equipment, food, etc - before you ever breed.
If you haven't read this sticky at the top of the BP Breeding forum, I'd recommend reading it - it's a great reality check:
http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=49580
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