Collection Focus / Strategy

[Kodieh]

I'm a small bit of gotta have it all but largely focused in the end.

I want to make all the stuff that got me into it all. Bees, savannahs, pastaves. But I'm focused in that. I also have projects for fire ax and lithium combos.

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[Archimedes]

(Not my photo, but seemed appropriate)

Heh, I know this snake, his name is Jaqen.

[Mike41793]

I'm definitely the second type of breeder lol. I have the genes I want to work with. I'll hold back what I need to and advance to get more genes into those combos. I like Hypo, Cinnamon, Fire and Lesser a lot. At least one of those four are going into almost all the combos I produce. Out of the ten snakes I have (not including normals) only two don't have at least one of those four genes lol.



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[OsirisRa32]

Any chance you'll agree to a breeding loan for your cinny pin male in like 4 years? :p they are difficult to find at first glance, kudos to you for finding one!

I have always been drawn to pewters, even before I learned what it took to make one, back in the beginning of my entry to the hobby. Their colors are just so unique, there isn't a prettier snake than a nice pewter to my eyes.

Pinstripe came a little later, when I started looking for alternatives than the Spider for reduced pattern. I love the dorsals on them, and the nice reduced speckles along the flanks. Spiders are nice, don't get me wrong, but you can turn around and see a spider in this hobby. Pinstripes are just more striking, to me.

Funnily enough, axanthics are really the only recessive I see myself working with so far. Maybe a token Pied somewhere along the line, but it's not close enough behind Axanthic to be in my priority list.

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Id be willing to dicuss a cinny pin loaner for a breeding project hehehe...should have a good one or two in the next 1-2 yrs

[mechnut450]

I think our collection will be limited for a long time. until we own our own place. But we are currently strictly hobbyist. I have one or 2 I will never sell. But we agreed that as we acquire, produce the next step up that we would remove the lowest animal ( in the gene pool ) if a replacement has that gene. ( example) a pastel and pinstripe both replaced when we acquired a lemonblast. Now once we produce say a supper spinner then the lemonblast and possible the spider female will be replaced.
I personally think that a grown female ( spider ) should not be offered up until say the spinner( or killer bee female ) is up to breeding size. this way you can work on other combos as well as the younger female takes her time getting to size.
I know our snakes are making breeding weight and maturity in 2 years . My pied I produce 2 years ago has had several locks wit hone of our albinos. and she was doing that tail wagging so much I was thinking she had a nerve twitch developing lol ( first time I seen it )

[iCandiBallPythons]

I have a fairly broad gene pool to work with. Nothing is a random pick up in my collection as everything has its purpose. My breeding plans are calculated somewhere 3-4 years in advance of projects Im currently working on. Ive held back ALOT of what Ive bred for for the last 7 years ( I've only sold 2 females in 7 years by choice and that was in 2013). Some stuff I breed purely to generate sales that does not interest me for long term projects

[MrLang]

Surprising amount of interest in Axanthic

[OctagonGecko729]

Surprising amount of interest in Axanthic

I'm glad you brought this up as I noticed that too. I always considered axanthic to be somewhat of a dead end with mutations the same as albino or leucism. There are certainly cool combos that can be made with them but not many 4+ gene combos from what I've seen. Maybe I'm just uninformed.

[sorraia]

My current collection is a little mixed, but there's some method to my madness too (focus). Currently I have 9 genes (cinnamon, mojave, pastel, yellowbelly, spider, hypo, axanthic, pied, specter) in my collection. Some of these I have plans for, i.e. I want to combine the axanthic and hypo (maybe add in spider there for good measure). I really like the look of axanthic, and depending on how much I get into breeding, I might play around with it a lot, or just a little (start with true ghost, maybe later work on axanthic spider, pastel axanthic, axanthic mojave, lightning pied, etc). . I really like my pastave, and might play around with that some more. I would really like to get a savannah from my mojave and cinnamon, but otherwise I don't anticipate doing much with the cinnamon. My het pied normal came with my cinnamon, and I may or may not do something with him. For the most part he's a great pet, and very laid back so great for interpretative/education functions. My citrus yb was so pretty I had to have her (I'm not a fan of pastel by itself, but I do like what it does when combined with other some other genes), and the specter was acquired as her potential future mate in hopes of getting some super stripes. I don't anticipate doing much else with them.

May change in the future, but for now that's what I got and what I plan. There are lots of other genes I like, but for now this is enough for me to work with. I like having something to focus on, instead of playing with a little bit of everything, I don't think I'll ever get into the 4, 5, or more genes in one animal. To me it just doesn't look great. I prefer the 2 and 3 gene animals.