4-6 more months and he may be making sperm plugs. If you're just interested in normals, since the female does all of the work making and laying eggs, you'll need a female that is (usu.) 3 years old and at least 1500-1800g in body weight.


The female lays 75% (or more) of her own weight in eggs, and stops eating during the breeding cycle, so the bigger (but not FATTER) the female, the bigger and healthier the clutch tends to be.

If you're interested in the morphs, unless U can afford to buy a morph male and start crossing for F1 generation hets, and then the F2 crosses again (about 5-7 years of work) a 1.1 het pair of whatever morph you get enjoyment from is a good start.


This is what I've done. With rescues or buying, I've got adult males, and now have a female that should be ready for NEXT season. I want to start w/a normal clutch in order to get the practical, hands-on, IRL experience w/a normal clutch first.

My hets--albino 1.1 and pied 1.1 are still too young, so they've got some growing to do, but in about 3-5 years, I should be breeding them for the homozygous babies. Eventually, when I'm successful, I want to breed an albino pied.

I'm also planning for lemon pastels, and axanthics and a few spiders for some bees.