Please don't miss understand where I am coming from here. As a person who keeps and breeds reptiles for the simple fact that, that's what I love to do, I think that you may be looking at this from a slightly skewed angle. You are going to need females that are at least 1,000+ grams to breed. A lot of breeders aren't going to be selling female breeder age snakes that are just normal for under $150, yet alone proven breeder females. Also on that same note to find a female pastel or spider or even yellow belly that are of breeder age and size for $250 is going to be a very difficult task. Unfortunately females are the comodity because they are the ones that lay the eggs... you can breed 1 male to 5 females and get about 15-25 babies... but if you breed 5 males to 1 female you aren't going to fair as well. My personal suggestion is, if you want to go for morphs and "make money" you need to take out a loan, buy every high end morph you can (and I mean the most latest thing you can get outta africa) and a lot of breeder age females, and then seriously work your tail off trying to sell all those babies after they hatch, then you may have a shot at making money. Again don't get me wrong, I am not down playing the market or saying there isn't money in breeding reptiles. What I am trying to say is you should be breeding because you love it, buy whatever morph you have an interest in working with that pleases you. If you want to go for something other than super pastels and bumble bees, then go for something else, just be prepared to pay more. You may get lucky and find a female pinstripe at the show for your price range, if it's an adult I would really be wary, but you may find a 2010 thats well started for a reasonable price, then you could go for lemon blasts and spinners. Anyways all I am saying is, breed what you want to, do it because you love it, and if you happen to make enough money to cover your costs of rats one year you should count yourself lucky. I have over 75 ball pythons, multiple green tree pythons, rainbow boas, childrens and spotted pythons. I work with albino, spider, pastel, lesser platty, pied, gen stripe, axanathics, and all kinds of crosses of those colors, and any year that I break even is truly a great year!!!