What to get?

[Pythonfriend]

Why not swap out the mojo and get you a pied male? Everyone needs a pieblad!!

None of the females is het for anything.

Yeah! A bunch of normal-looking hets! As if we didnt have enough of that!

Lets be serious.... So you have 3 females, and one male. You want to breed for fun, to advance your hobby, to expand the collection, or just to experience breeding them. Breeding is a lot of work, surely it would be nice if the hatchlings can easily be sold?

If you breed your male to your 3 females, it will be a lot of work, it will cost a lot of time, and if it works you get plenty of normals, a decent amount of mojaves, a few fires, and with luck a fire mojave.


My suggestion is to work with the 3 females you have, and get your budget up as high as you can, at least 1000+, and get a true powerhouse male. If you get a male with 3 different codominant genes that are nice on their own, or a male with super pastel + 2 other genes, breeding will be much more fun. The offspring will sell easily and you will get nice holdbacks. The clutches will look diverse and have lots of different combos in them. And, if you manage to get decent prices for some of the cool stuff you produce, after all the work there will be a little financial reward at the end that can reimburse you for the cost of the 1000+ dollar male, the cost of the incubator, and the cost for food and electricity and water.

So i would say: Get something like maybe a pewter bee (cinnamon + pastel + spider), or a lesser killer bee (lesser + super pastel + spider). Or a jigsaw blast (mojave + pinstripe + pastel). Male of course. Breed it to all 3 females you have. Use the mojave male as a backup breeder, if your new male fails to lock up then just use your current male.

If you really only have 500 dollars to spend and the 4 BPs you currently have, and want to breed, i would say forget about getting another one. Invest the 500 dollars into what you need, like an incubator, a hatchling rack / enclosures for hatchlings, or save it, and breed what you currently have. Maybe breed the mojave only to your fire female, maybe breed it to all 3 females.

Get serious with breeding when you can get breeder-quality animals to breed, that will produce hatchlings that easily sell, and that will produce holdbacks that you will want to keep because they look so awesome, or because you got something new you never had before. (other than fire mojave).

For 500, you could get a nice female breeder, which only makes sense if you have at least one genetically powerful male, which you do not have. And currently you cannot really use your two normal females. They are an asset, but fire x normal will not get you far. Right now you need to take the step and go for a 1000-1500 dollar male with the intent of breeding it to all 3 females.