Male or female breeding

[artgecko]

Honestly, I wouldn't breed to a normal... If at all possible. There are SO many BPs in the market now that it is very hard to place / find homes for normals. Because of that, you should try to produce only morph animals and preferably work with morphs that are popular where you are (and will sell) or work with a morph that you really like so that you won't mind keeping the offspring if you can't find homes for them.

The spider gene is also related to wobbling and in some cases, can be so bad that you might have to "cull" a hatching if it cannot function due to severe wobble. That is something I would not suggest for a new breeder. You still run that risk (having to cull animals due to deformities) no matter what morph you work with, but with spiders and other genes that are known to cause defects, it is a higher possibility.

The only morph I know of where sex ratio comes into play is the bananna / coral glow. With those, one strain produces mostly male offspring and the other strain produces mostly female offspring. Other than that, I don't think there is a different ratio of sexes or morphs produced whether you choose a male or female.

To have the best chance of producing a recessive morph, like albino (where both parents must carry the gene), I would suggest starting with a visual albino and pairing it with another visual or with a "het" albino.

You do not want to deal with animals that are "50% het" etc. In that case, the animal is a "possible het" meaning that it may or may not be het albino...so you don't know until you breed it and find out. IMO, you should either get a visual animal or a "100% het" so that you know what you are working with. Don't be shy, ask the breeder what the pairing was that produced the het animal. If they were not using a visual example (i.e. albino x normal) I would not purchase. If they were doing a het x het pairing, then they don't know which animals carry the gene so it is a guessing game.

I would do a good bit more research before you start breeding. Figure out which combo morph you really enjoy and want to breed, then look around a lot online and find animals that are the closest to that morph that you can afford and grow them up and breed. I am currently leaning towards producing animals that are a combination of hypo, enchi, dessert ghost, and lesser, so I know that I will need to purchase visual hypos or hets that carry one or more of the other traits listed (same with DG). To that end, I am looking for animals that carry 2-3 genes at least. In the long run, it is easier / cheaper to go at it that way because you do not have to grow out as many snakes or breed as many generations to get what you want. The purchase price of the adults may be more but the cost of feeding and keeping all of the single gene animals to eventually breed that 4 gene BP will far outweigh it in the long run.