100% Het pied x Visual albino

[nikkubus]

i want to be able to breed towards is albino pieds, cuz they are pretty pricey

If making money is the main driver here, I would totally abandon the idea of albino pied at all. You need to realize you will lose money for many, many years before you start to turn a profit when you are working with recessives, and for every additional recessive, the difficult and time required to turn profit goes up exponentially.

If instead you focus on incomplete dominants that are in high demand, you will get a much faster turn around, as well as being able to progress in your projects more quickly. The only reason I would ever choose to breed a recessive on purpose is because I had an attachment to that particular morph, loved it, and didn't care it was going to be a money suck for a long time. While there are exceptions to the rule, and you can make money quickly starting with two double recessives bred together (big initial investment), there is still way better investments to be had in popular incomplete dominants.

One thing you want to keep in mind is the market fluctuates and follows certain patterns. When a brand new morph comes out, or an older morph falls back into favor because a big breeder produced a really cool combo with it, the price tag is really high for a while, but it drops off over time. The more animals you have at your disposal, the more you can try to breed the right things at the right times and try to max your profit, but when you are starting off, you want to try and chose something that has a pretty stable price point and is easy to make. This means watching the market over long periods of time and seeing what is going on.

What is visually appealing to you should always be a factor, even when money is the main factor, because your level of passion for the project is going to show in your lines. You can't breed the same pair over and over again every year, and make good money. You have to always be striving to create something new and interesting. Really take some time to get to know what's out there and get a feel for what you are passionate about. I would shop with a breeder like Olympus Reptiles or JKR before any random breeder because I know that when they are selecting holdbacks, they are looking at more than just which morphs the animal has. They are looking for the best representations of those morphs for the particular projects they work on, and their lines only get better and better, throwing the best of hatchlings. Guys like this can sell just about anything for a higher markup than anyone else, even when the market is oversaturated with underpriced animals because people know their animals are top notch.

If you go to https://www.morphmarket.com/us/c/rep...-pythons/index there are some things here to look for that can be really useful. Notice the color key, anything in blue is an incomplete dominant with one copy of the gene, purple is incomplete dominant with two copies of the gene. These should be the bread and butter for a new breeder to work with. The other thing to pay attention to is the numbers. Really low numbers usually indicate the morph is so rare or new that it isn't a good investment. Very large numbers usually indicate there are so many of this morph that aren't selling fast enough that it's a bad investment. You have to adjust for trends and how combos factor in, but this is a good general rule.

Hope that insight helps you. I watch a lot of new breeders crash and burn because they overlooked some of these things. Kudos for asking questions and making an effort to do your research before throwing them together.