Personally I would buy a 2 gene male raise him up for a year or so and then buy 2 to 3 normal proven breeder females. When breeding a bumblebee male to a normal female you have the possibility to hatch out spiders, pastels, normals, and bumblebees. You can sell all the hatchlings you don't require for your future projects and raise up your holdbacks for a later time. You can use the money or trade snakes for additional future breeder females. After you have made the initial investment in racks, food, incubator, and all other equipment you can easily see how costly it will be to breed. Buying a hatchling female most always goes down drastically in price by the time she is ready to produce for you. I have yet to breed, I'm just in the process of raising as many female morphs I can afford up to breeding size. Hopefully this year will be my first year of hatching out some babies! As everyone else pointed out, there are no guarantees. First comes the passion and goals to produce snakes that make you go crazy. Have fun with it! When going to a show you will find a snake that screams BUY ME, you will know it is right.
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