Quote Originally Posted by Pythonfriend View Post
what are you going to gain when you breed a male that is most likely just a nice pastel to a bunch of normal females? what if you get 50% pastels and 50% normals? thats maybe around 30 dollars per egg if you sell the hatchlings, not considering any costs like feeding all the hatchlings, hatchling rack, and so on.

worst case scenario is that you have a proven pastel male, and you have had a bunch of females produce eggs while being bred to just a single gene pastel instead of... i dont know... something with 3 or 4 genes in it or a banana or something, and you have a bunch of normal hatchlings and pastel hatchlings for sale.

i mean, sure, you can do it, im sure the hatchlings will look cute and be healthy and you will get them sold when the price is low enough, but you can do better. when you have a few normal females ready to breed, at least use a triple gene male or something.
This is very true I figured a normal female because it would be the simplest way to prove out what else is at play if anything. The money isnt what I'm after in this scenario I just want to know what's causing this superb pastel . I can take a loss on a clutch for one year to hopefully prove something different is in there .

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