Jason,

Sounds like you have a well thought out and sensible plan!

Me? In a few weeks, I'll have four female '05 normals, and I would like to pick up 3 or 4 more this spring. I have purchased a 100% het hypo and a 100% het pied (both males) from Adam, and I plan to purchase a 100% het clown from Justin Kobylka (breeder here in GA who was WONDERFUL enough to teach me how to probe and pop this weekend and hold and admire his beautiful animals).

I'm up in the air (well, actually finances are a bit of a hinderance) but trying to decide on the fourth morph as either a female pastel, 100% het hypo female, or 100% het caramel albino male (at least as of today those are the three I'm considering).

My next major purchase will be a rack or two from Boaphile and the next couple of years will be spent raising these animals to healthy breeding weights. I may or may not pick up an additional female here or there along the way. Depends on if I see one advertised that I just MUST have! LOL

If I go with a pastel female, I would breed her to either Sullivan (the blushing male, formerly known as Kiah) in hopes he'd pass on some of his blushing to their offspring, or probably, the more sensible thing would be to breed her to Casper (the het hypo).

Once the current girls are all raised up - then I would keep all the female offspring and raise them all up to breeding weight to breed back to a het male for visual morphs in say - oh - five or six or seven years from now! LONG term goals! LOL