Quote Originally Posted by Tzeentch View Post
I will just never be the guy who breeds his Lesser to a normal. I see no point in hatching ONLY Lessers (yes, they are awesome in their own right.)

I will however breed my Lesser to my Pastave and have the potential to hatch Pastel BEL, BEL, Pastaves, Pastels, Lessers and even normals. If I ended up with all Lessers or Majoves, that is fine. Its the POTENTIAL that is more EXCITING.

That's fun and exciting in its own right, sure. However, anyone really can play that game. All you have to do is look up online what it takes to make your desired combo of choice, plug and play, and pray for the odds. (Not that it's THAT easy, granted -- but still.)

What is more challenging, to me, is figuring out how to improve on the next generation. That doesn't necessarily mean "How do I pack more genes in there?" A super spinner blast that was made with brown pastels, a dull, spotty spider and a dark, busy pinstripe may look okay on its own, but is likely to produce crummy-looking offspring.

I wouldn't breed a lesser to a normal just to produce more lessers. That would be getting close to "boring," IMO. (As much as any snake breeding could really ever be called "boring ..!" ) However, I might do so to improve on my lesser bloodline. That's a bit more challenging than breeding my lesser to my mojave to produce BELs, because I knew (because I read it on The Interwebs) that all I needed to make my BEL was a lesser and a mojave. To improve on my lesser, I'd have to look at him, figure out what I want to improve on him (reduce the pattern, lighten up the colors, etc.) and then find a female that I thought would compliment him nicely.

The clutch itself might not seem as "exciting" as the BEL clutch, but in some ways, I think that owning an A+ knockout lesser that I produced using careful selective breeding is more impressive than a BEL that I produced by looking up the ingredients online and praying to the Odds Gods. (Not that the Odds Gods weren't real good to me -- but still.)