Quote Originally Posted by anjoid View Post
I kind of feel the same about the snowballs, I was also thinking of picking up a bumblebee 100% axanthic and thinking of breeding that to the axanthic 100% snowball, any thoughts as to how that clutch may come out? I'm very indecisive

Female axanthic 100% snowball X Male bumblebee 100% axanthic
half of the clutch would be axanthics, half of the clutch would be 100% het axanthic. on top of that there would be the spider gene and the pastel gene going around.

so, it would be 12.5% axanthic bumble bee, 12.5% axanthic spider, 12,5% axanthic pastel, 12,5% axanthic, and then the same again with 100% het axanthic: 12.5% bumble bee, 12.5% spider, 12,5% pastel, 12,5% normal.

but the het albino (het snow) would not be utilized, and your albino het axanthic would also be out of work.

i would not do it, because then you have 4 males, and only 3 females, and two of the males would be out of work. every male can be bred to several females, so with 4 really good males, assuming you breed them all, you should be looking at around 10-12 females, maybe even more. even with just 2 good breeder males in use, it should be something like 5 females. right now you have 3. so another male is not a good idea. one more mouth to feed, but the maximum amount of clutches per year will stay at 3.