8 years??!! I hope my little projects dont take that long lol. At least my immediate ones that is. I've never been one for patience haha but I think the good thing with BP breeding is you can produce great looking animals while still on the road to your target combo. If you work with the right genes that is. The question is if the money wasn't a factor would I prefer to breed to them or just buy them. Breeding has costs all it's own but it can tend to be spread out and you can potentially recoup by selling what you dont keep. But there's the risk of not being able to sell them and having too many animals. In any event i guess the decision is made for me as I don't have the income to drop 2-5K per snake that I would want. Plus I honestly find breeding fun. I'll be interested to see what you have full dorsal wise. One of my favorite snakes right now is my female Rio. Full clean dorsal with lots of side pattern and good color changes. I'm not much for Gstripes or superstripe. Tho I recently did see a superstripe combo that added more side pattern but can't remember what was in it