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i agree, i hate to have to say this, but sho220 is right, strategically this is a very bad start.
single-gene pastel male, single-gene yellowbelly male, het ultramel male.... even if they look really nice and are good examples of the morph, none of these is useful for breeding in 2014.
other new hobby breeders start out with single or double gene females and triple gene males, or with visual recessives and visual recessives with extra genes and 100% hets with extra genes. some hobby breeders and small breeders that have been at it longer now work with BPs that have 4 genes or 5 genes or 6 genes, or with visual recessives + 3 extra genes, or with visual double recessives.
the market for single-gene morph males and for hets without extra genes and for normal females is saturated, prices are incredibly low, and everything is so advanced that most breeders would not even consider buying and pairing up anything that is so genetically weak. (morphs that are hot and new and rare and expensive are the exception).
if you breed a triple gene male to normal females, you cannot advance, the best you can hatch out is a similar triple gene, and thats rare. both parents need to contribute something if you want a chance to advance.
the ideas you are currently considering produce 50% normals and single-gene morphs (triple gene to normal), or even 75% normals and single-gene morphs (YB to YB). these are difficult to sell, and if you want fair prices that are high enough to justify the effort and to recoup some of your costs, these wont help you. you might be forced to keep them, or to sell them at really low prices. in the meantime, others produce clutches where the hatchlings have 3 genes or more on average, and only occasionally produce a normal or a single-gene hatchling, and hatch out 5 gene combos just as often as they hatch out single gene morphs. for them, its no big deal to wholesale their normals and single-gene hatchlings at really low prices, because these only make up a small percentage of the production.
you really need to re-think it all. if you start out the way others did 15 or 20 years ago, you wont catch up, the market is too far ahead of you. if you want a bee or an ivory, dont breed pastel to spider or YB to YB, just buy them. and when you really want to breed, consider buying BPs like a really good looking female bee hatchling or female ivory hatchling. one year later, buy a really good looking triple gene or quadruple gene male. that would be a plan that gives you chances to advance and compete, when you start out with producing clutches where most of the hatchlings are double-gene and triple-gene.
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