What to get to start out?

[PitOnTheProwl]

im patient but not quite that patient haha i could get those and just add a female bee down the line

You will learn young grasshopper!!! The females WILL take a couple years, unless you have the cash to drop on older females. And if you do, could you be my new best friend

[zach_24_90]

thats what i was planning on.. shhhh

[EmberBall]

You wanna be a Ball Breeder?

How much money do you have to start out with? Do you have a rack ready to go, if so, how many tubs is it? What morphs do you like?

Dave

[tikigator]

If that are your options for starting the collection, I would get bumblebee male, and females, depends on what you prefer and what you want to work with..you can pair him with more then one female, so you gonna have more chances on hitting those 3 dominant/codominant combinations.

I agree, that's what I did. I bought a young bumble bee and then spent money on some nice single morph females (trying to get one of each, so far I have a lesser, a pinstripe, a few spiders, and a few pastels) A double codom male is a lot less expensive than a female....and you can breed them sooner.

And then you can hold back some of your double females and sell the singles when the doubles are ready.

Name of the game is statistics (haha remember when we were all in highschool and college, hating every second of that class and wondering "when are we EVER gonna use this stuff??" well...we're using it!!)

Although....depending on what your pricerange is and how much money you have to invest, (this is what I kinda wish I did) instead of spending $300-400 on 10 different snakes....go splurge and spend $600-800 on 4 females and a nice male....you might want to just want to get a nice double male, and then a couple double females (nice bumble bee on kingsnake for $500 bucks shipped, can't beat that!) Instead, I ended up with 17 snakes, 15 of them are single morphs. I could've cut that number in half and had a couple more double visuals.

Good luck!

[zach_24_90]

You wanna be a Ball Breeder?

How much money do you have to start out with? Do you have a rack ready to go, if so, how many tubs is it? What morphs do you like?

Dave

i have enough to start the right way rack is a work in progress. figuring out the way i want to go with that. and i really like all the bee morphs and possibilities, along with the BELs and pies

[zach_24_90]

I agree, that's what I did. I bought a young bumble bee and then spent money on some nice single morph females (trying to get one of each, so far I have a lesser, a pinstripe, a few spiders, and a few pastels) A double codom male is a lot less expensive than a female....and you can breed them sooner.

And then you can hold back some of your double females and sell the singles when the doubles are ready.

Name of the game is statistics (haha remember when we were all in highschool and college, hating every second of that class and wondering "when are we EVER gonna use this stuff??" well...we're using it!!)

Although....depending on what your pricerange is and how much money you have to invest, (this is what I kinda wish I did) instead of spending $300-400 on 10 different snakes....go splurge and spend $600-800 on 4 females and a nice male....you might want to just want to get a nice double male, and then a couple double females (nice bumble bee on kingsnake for $500 bucks shipped, can't beat that!) Instead, I ended up with 17 snakes, 15 of them are single morphs. I could've cut that number in half and had a couple more double visuals.

Good luck!

haha i AM in college. but no way in hell could i be any sort of science major. i do not do chemistry haha if i did i would be a marine bio major. and yeah thats what im planning on doing. bumble bee male, lesser female, pastel female, pinstripe female

[EmberBall]

Get a Bee female, blast female, and get a high end male to breed to them. Keep your collection small, but get the best male you can afford..................................or wait until you have your own house.

Dave

[zach_24_90]

haha i am also one of those kids that has a house in college

[zach_24_90]

when you say highend male.. what would you reccomend?

[mainbutter]

ok so after seeing that im liking all the odds with the male bee a lot better what do you guys think?

When breeding fewer (or just a single) male(s) to a stable of multiple females, it always pays to have high quality males. An investment in a single high quality animal goes a longer distance if it can produce multiple clutches.