What shall I get?

[LocoKen]

As far as finding reputable breeders goes, there's a good start on the left hand of your screen on this website Also, the BOI (Board of Inquiry) on here and on Faunaclassifieds.com is a good place to see what other people have to say about dealing with breeders. As far as pricing goes, Faunaclassifieds and kingsnake.com are the most used classifieds for BPs, (there's also a section here for it aswell) They are a good place to get a general price range for morphs.

If you are looking at breeding in the future, don't be afraid to pay top of the range price. You get what you pay for most of the time. Always choose quality over price, as it seems that "okay" mommies and daddies produce "okay" babies. "okay" babies are much much harder to sell, especially when you are first getting into the scene. The reptile community is based HEAVILY on reputation and word of mouth.

Expo's are a great way to meet people in the community, and see the snakes up close and personal. You can also find some decent prices there.

Read, read, read, and read some more! There is a HUGE collection of knowledge at your fingertips. This site has caresheets, husbandry, feeding, shedding, medical, breeding, incubation, morphs, and everything else under the BP sun. There are very useful stickies at the top of each of the forum sections. When you've read a boat ton of info, and have more questions, ask! This has been the friendliest and most "newbie friendly" website I have ever seen. I've learned so much from this site and the community in the past 3 months.

Another great website for checking out morphs and combos is www.worldofballpythons.com it has a great morph list and also a very fun, highly addicting genetics calculater

I'm a newbie too, but I hope I've helped a little at least Welcome to BP.net and the reptile world!

Thank you, Tiffany for all the wonderful information! I'm glad I found this place as the atmosphere that I'm seeing is just what you've described, friendly and informative. I never thought I would have this much fun looking and reading about snakes, but it is addicting. And yes, I did check out the worldofballpythons.com site you mentioned and also found that addicting as well. Great information here and too much of it, I might add for someone like me (Noob)! Regardless, I'm sure I've stumbled upon the best place for info and I greatly appreciate the help. Thanks again! I will be checking out the places you've mentioned and hope to glean more understanding of these awesome creatures!

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If your buying a young one, I would say to start off with a female of the morph of your choice. They take longer to grow for breeding purposes.
spooky

Is it a common practice to not use normals to breed with because you will get some from breeding morphs anyway, or could you use a normal male and breed it with say a spider female and get good morphs out of them? Obviously I'm not too sure on how this all works so forgive me for the noob questioning.