[QUOTE=coreydelong;1911019]The way to start if I were you is to dump that super pastel male and put your money towards a decent female and start plumping her up. It will take you a few years- unless you can afford a good sized adult/sub-adult girl.

Start collecting females. They take longer to get to breeding size (2-3 years). You can wait a year or two on males. In that time your desired male prices will drop. Why feed a higher priced male for 2 years while you fatten up your females when you can get him cheaper in a year and feed him less?

A breeder once told me this- buy some desirable females to breed for what you want. Take the lesser common denominator on your female. Here is my personal example... I want to breed Nuclear Spiders. Well... that takes a Fire/Butter/Spider. A Spider girl is the cheapest of them all, so I got a few. Then he said- never breed a lesser quality male to any female. My next purchase was a FireButter male. Next year they will all be ready to breed if all goes well. I bought sub-adult/adult females and a young male, so I will only feed each for a year before they hopefully breed.

and.... one the Fires- you really may want to consider your stance on those. They clean up anything. Here's my 0.1 FireFly and my 1.0 FireButter. Not cheap, but amazing quality.




this isn't always true.