Thanks for the great info!
Pitontheprowl- I haven't decided about spiders yet. I do love how they look, but the possibility of producing bad woddlers gives me cold feet. I may have to buy one "as a pet" and see if the wobbling bothers me before I make a decision on working with that gene or not. I have seen some awesome honeybees though, so I can see why you suggested that. Outside of that, not sure what I want to produce other than BELs (with my pastave). With hypos, ideally, I'd want to work towards something with strong color and clean pattern.. Other than that, not sure.

OWAL- Thanks for that information. I wasn't aware that lesser has a hypo effect. The only reason I'm really entertaining a lesser male is that I have a pastave and i'd love to produce BELS.. I find the mojave / mojave BELs grey heads too dark for my taste, so lesser seems to be my only other option.

I don't necessarily have to stick with one male though... I could purchase a hypo enchi to work with hypos and then something like a enchi lesser or fire lesser to work towards BELs. I also have an interest in sugar / calico, but have never seen a hypo sugar / calico, so I'm not sure if that is a good combination.

Thanks again everyone for the great discussion! I appreciate you sharing your feedback.