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[Ouroboros]

Getting the best looking Morph/combo offspring is more likely to happen if you start With the best looking parents...Selective breeding.

You don't start with average animals when breeding for quality no matter what kind of animals they are...Dogs, Cats, Horses, Snakes... That is why people pay top dollar for top animals so they have Top genetics passed on to every animal they produce.

OP - That is a nice looking bee the brown out on top may get darker but it I don't think it will spread... I have noticed that the brown out on pastels I have raised stays pretty much to the scales that have already browned and doesn't spread over the nice clean yellow ones, though the Yellow can fade with age.

I have to disagree with you on that. Selective breeding is a gamble, not a gurantee. And nor does it increase the chances significantly. For instance: just because you buy 1.1 pied (high-white) then you're not guranteed to get offspring that has 85 - 95% white on their body. It is a gamble and just because the parents are nice then that doesn't mean that the offspring is going to look even better than them. It varies through generations. One day you're lucky and vice versa.

I've got a few grown-up G-stripes - females of course. One of them has some partial breaks here and there on her stripe, and yet her parents had complete fading stripes. I don't care about that as long as the genes are what they're supossed to be, and that the animal in question is healthy and works fine.

You can try and stirve for perfection but it is so unlikey that one may have the champion of for instance pastels. Some like blush while some like clean. Some like reduced while other like busy. Some like bright while some like dark. As long as the owner is satisfied then he/she shouldn't care about people opinions.

Would you rather pick the handsome looking but poor feeding VPI axanthic or the average looking but terrific feeder VPI axanthic? Health and genes come before looks in my world.