Quote Originally Posted by jinx667 View Post
For starting out in a recessive project I am a fan of having het females and getting a visual male when the girls are up to size. This gives you the most bang for the buck on your visual by being able to put him to more than one het female AND it eliminates possible het offspring. I am not a fan at all of possible hets. Hard to sell, and time consuming to prove out.

So I suggest getting one or two whatever morph het females (Lesser, Pastel, etc...) and a couple of normal het females, raising them then in 2 years buy a visual Pastel Clown male (the price will have dropped some by then).

You could also get the visual male earlier and start creating you own hets while you other het girls are getting up to size.

Not as exciting in the short term, but will pay off big in the long term.
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what i said, just more elaborate. And yes thats one thing i forgot... Buy females first, males later, because sexual maturity requires much more time in females. But then, a few years of delay are not of much concern when they get 20+ years old and reproduce nicely in their first 7-10 years.