Quote Originally Posted by SnakeySnakeSnake
I was just curious about how many people breed just to add to their collection, moreso than to make a profit?
When you think about it... isn't it mostly the same thing? I mean, just from this forum... I know many people that have hets... And a few that have some homozygous morphs....

What's the problem with producing the morph that you WANT from a couple of hets, and then selling the siblings to recover the price of the hets? You're not really making much of a profit in that first year of breeding anyway.. Just recovering from expenses, and the orriginal cost of the animal.

If you're only looking to have 4-8 snakes in the long run, and you want something other than Albinos, you're going to have to wind up getting rid of a lot of hets and poss. hets and even some morphs in order to stay around 4-8 if you're breeding those 4 snakes to produce Albinos, Hypos, whatever.

Just my thoughts on it....

And to answer your other question as to what I would do... I would buy a homozygous MALE albino, and breed him to a het female... much more cost efficient. A het pair is also a cost effective way to go.

If you DO get into poss. hets at all, I would buy a few from the same clutch. If they're all 66% Poss, you have the best odds raising up three or four of them... I've heard there's nothing quite like proving a possible... but like was mentioned previously, it's also frustrating after a 3 year wait to have them NOT prove.... so just stick with the odds, and get a few...