Starting out new. What should I get?

[Stewart_Reptiles]

First I would not buy one male and one female right out the bat I would buy 2 or 3 females, 1 gene if recessive, multiple if not recessive.

I would raise them up for a year and than worry about a male and get the most gene I can afford.

Now no one can dictate what YOU should breed that's on you, and the first thing that comes in consideration is breeding what YOU like and breeding what sells.

Regardless of the level you want to breed for, many people say I don't want to do it for the money, well I can guarantee that even if your goal is not to make money but have a hobby or want your collection paying for itself, you do not want to loose money.

So the question is how do you not loose money? By being smart about investing (I say smart not cheap), and by knowing YOUR market, knowing what is in demand what is over produced, knowing how to establish a reputation that will make people want to buy from you, by knowing how to market yourself, by having a plan.

You also need to think about housing, feeders (either finding a reliable source for live or breeding your own), incubation etc, space (that can amount to an nice cost on the top of your starter animals.)

In other words YOU have a lot of work ahead of yourself that only YOU can do, putting two snakes together it's the easy part so easy every one and their grand mother does it, the other side of the coin a lot of people give up within 3 to 5 years when if they went the right way about it they would actually start making a profit.

You need to get started with at least 5K that also mean you must be willing to lose those 5K.