Quote Originally Posted by SoCal Pythons View Post
Well, i wanted to stay under $1000 but i would go $1250 if i had to and i want mostly just albino pied babies, piebalds and albinos.
For less than $1000 you can pick up a male and a female that are both DH for albino and piebald. Breed the male to all 3, the new DH female and both of the females you already own. From the DH to DH pairing you have the possibility of producing visual albino pieds, piebalds, and albinos. From the DH to piebald pairing you could get visual piebalds. From the DH to albino pairing you could visual albinos. You will also get an assortment of possible hets from all of these clutches.

Or, you could spend your money picking up a piebald male along with another (or possibly 2) albino females. Same as above, breed this male to all of them. From the piebald to piebald pairing, all you will produce are visual pieds. From the pied to albino (the more albino females you pair him with, the better) all you will get are double hets. Once you hatch these double hets, hold back all of the females and at least two males. You will use these to produce albino pieds in the future. When you're working with double hets you only have a 1 in 16 chance of actually producing the snake you're really looking for (the albino pied), so the more you have to pair up, the better the odds are that you will actually produce that snake.

Or, you could pick up and albino male and another pied female. This will put you in the same situation as above, except you'll be producing visual albinos rather than pieds.

It all depends on what you actually want from those first few clutches. No matter what option you choose, in order to produce a visual double recessive, you're going to have to have at least one male and female that are both double hets.

I hope this helps with your questions.