Quote Originally Posted by TimNA View Post
So I am getting a male pied & started pricing het females just have some options. I was thinking a het would be great but why not get a jump start on multi gened pieds.

So a normal het female seems to be around $150-$250 or so.
A regular pastel female is roughly $200

I found a pastel het pied for $750...

I am not saying it's not worth it but I was thinking they would be around $400-$500. Just curious if that is about the going price for them? It also seems that there are not a lot of pastel het pied around, only found a few on the classifieds so I am assuming that is why the cost is high.

If that's the case I guess my male pied will meet my female pastel in a dark tub one day soon.

The price of a multi-gene morph is generally always more than the sum price of the individual morphs. The individual components cannot generally be added up to get a price for a multi-gene morph. Lower supply is one reason for the higher price but also the time involved (which is also a factor for the lower supply).

For a more extreme example, I saw a pied albino the other day for close to 15k. Individually, a pied and albino are worth around 1.2k together. The years and patience to produce a double recessive morph are represented in the price.

$750 is a good price... if she looks good, you should snap her up!