....just to clairify....don't get me confused with a greedy person that is trying to make a quick buck in the ball pythons business...I am in this for the hobby....

This is all just a fun time for me...I will get there eventually....I was just wondering which way would be best for someone with the limited finances and a small collection...

i was planning on picking up a het pied male next season. I definately can't afford a het pied female so producing possible hets is the only option for me. I was thinking of trying to breed him to the little het hypo girl(she will be at least a year old when the het pied male hatches) that I have and producing some 25% possible DH hypo-pieds....I would be raising all the females from that clutch anyway in search of a female het pied, so why not put the hypo trait in the mix....By the time the female 25% possible DH hypo-pieds are large enough to breed....I will probably have a male hypo and I will still have the het pied male to run through those 25% possible DH hypo-pied females...if I can prove one to be DH that will be cool....if not, maybe a few of the females will prove to be het for hypo or het for pied...

I was just trying to get everyone's input....