Since this is one of my first posts on this forum I figured I'd say a little bit about myself before I show off my little buddy Monty. I first got into this hobby some 6-7 years ago when I was too young to be able to afford any crazy morphs. I got out of the hobby for a few years but am now back into the hobby as much as I was when I first got into the hobby. I've been lurking around on a few forums for the past couple years and it seems like many forums activity has decreased by quite a bit. I'm not sure if this is because there are less people interested in the hobby now, if there are less new people getting into the hobby or if it could just mean that forums have become kind of passe but in any case it's a little disheartening. I've been meaning to make an introduction post to a few forums but it just doesn't seem like there is enough of a community on most of them to make it worth it. This forum seems to have one of the most active communities and it is specifically meant for ball pythons so I figured I'd give it a shot here and finally introduce myself a little bit.

So anyway, onto the snake







Those two are of him when he was a lot younger



This is much more recent

Monty (named by my dad lol) is an orange dream, enchi, pastel, yellowbelly I picked up from urban python at the CRBE in Toronto last year. I didn't just pick him up because of how gorgeous he was but also because of the potential I saw in him. Although that potential is kind of a problem now. I'm not sure what kind of females I want to get for him lol. Right now I only have a 'dinker' (probably just a really nice normal) proven breeder female that I'm going to try and pair with him this season but I want to get a few females that I can pair with him in the future to make some amazing babies. What I was thinking about was something like a fire, spider, orange dream and maybe an orange dream blade clown. I was eying a fire, spider, orange dream for awhile so I know how much that should run me but I have no idea how much something like an orange dream blade clown would go for. Another possibility I was thinking of was some sort of yellow belly complex animal but as far as I know it's pretty much impossible to differentiate them from yellow bellies in a clutch and I'd expect that gets even worse when you add more genes.

So yeah, any suggestions (or an idea of the price of an orange dream blade clown) would be awesome!