Brian, thank you for the response on my thread! I recently decided as a life choice to get into this and have only acquired a pair of pastels and ghosts as well as what I believe to be an amazing spider. I want to build up a nice set of normals too all with various outstanding traits that I can use as you did with your Mojave to normal breeding. I want a good selective breeding breeding program first and foremost before the "gene packing" begins. I'm also setting money aside to buy from a big name such as yourself for my "dream snakes". I just didn't want to purchase a dream snake first year without being able to fully understand and appreciate what I was getting. That being said I wouldn't be offended if you kept me in mind if you have any amazing single genes or normals that you think would be useful I want to have my own stock built up and keep most of what I produce so I can breed the best to the best or whatever I think would be most suited for the desired results. What you mentioned about your colubrids makes sense to me and that's what I'm hoping for. I would love to have a collection where I could say that 80-90% were produced by me. I think that there is some logic that needs to be applied when bringing outside quality snakes into the collection instead of willy nilly or flat out only buying expensive quality snakes from the beginning unless you have tons of money to spend on snakes of all types and morphs.

So if my parents are ugly then... :/