Ok good information thank you! I can't believe that first clutch you had that's amazing. The amount of pastels and pastel bs you has is awesome. I MIGHT be able to breed a couple in year one too actually which is completely unexpected. I'm going to an expo august 23rd to see what I can pick up but my ghost girl is eating good so she might be ready by November but I'll need her bf to get up past 600 grams so we'll see. I also have some young ones I'm raising up too. My spider actually is eating really good, I caught her cruising 3 days after she last ate so when I caught her cruising tonight (night 4) I fed her again and I barely got the F/T in the tub before she struck at it and coiled. I'm also feeding them smaller than what I should so once I run out of the FSM that I have I'll move them onto whatever sized rat I can get that makes sense for them.

From your experience how hard is it to sell your normals and single genes like the pastels? If I had some normals that I hatched I would like to think that I could find good homes for them as pets for people. I'm also looking at yellow bellys and might pick one up here soon. If I can ever get my custody situation out of the way and all my finances straight I'd love to get some sort of banana combo or other really high end morph to throw in the mix. I can't readily find many snake breeders in my area either so I am really hoping that I can fill that void over the next 5-10 years as long as I really work at it. I guess the answer to my question though is basically like what you're saying. It's good when starting out and to get your feet wet especially when you don't have the cash to jump right into only doing high end.