Which Pairing Combo

[Pythonfriend]

butter/lesser, fire, vanilla, and enchi are all good choices, and good genes to have in a collection.

just a few thigs to consider..... just my personal opinion, i think vanilla fires are really awesome, but vanilla on its own, without fire, doesnt do that much. its a bit like a weaker version of fire.

vanilla fire also is one of these allelic combos that cannot reproduce themselves. when you breed a vanilla fire to another BP that does not have vanilla or fire, half of the hatchlings get the vanilla gene and the other half get the fire gene. its no problem when you have other combos that already have vanilla or fire or both, for example, breeding vanilla fire to fire will give you chances to get more vanilla fire. but in your situation, if you buy a vanilla fire, you wont hatch any vanilla fires in the next generation, you can later produce them, but not right away. that could be a reason to have vanilla in one of the BPs, and fire in the other one.

then, females are generally more expensive, and one male can be bred to several females. simply put, the females determine how many eggs you get each season, and the job of the males is mainly to make sure that the content of these eggs is awesome. so the more expensive genes should be in the male, and also the genes that you really want to spread around in your collection should be in the male.


you also need to consider what you already have, and if you want to also use the male to breed it to one of the females you already have. for example, you already have a BEL female, so if the male you get has lesser/butter and something else, you can also make more BELs. or, if you really want to spread one or two of these genes through your collection, lets say enchi and fire, you would want these in the male, so that you can breed it to your super pastel and normal females.

with all the options you have its quite complicated to figure it out, and much depends on your personal preference and what you want to produce. it will also depend on what you can actually find on the market, and if its within price range.

i think the reason why enchi is getting more popular is that it took a while for people to realize how powerful that gene is. some combos had to be discovered for people to get the message. champagnes, for example, are sometimes patternless, and sometimes have a bit of pattern on the spine. and no matter what you combine with it, the sides stay patternless, only the colors change. except for enchi, enchi returns the side-pattern. enchi can even overpower pied: super enchi pieds seem to always be really low in white, with lots of interesting pattern on the back and sides. its really unique how enchi can add pattern to some morphs that are generally mostly patternless.