Quote Originally Posted by Helix View Post
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!