When I bought Auryn, I had no intentions of breeding and males tend to be smaller than females--so I went with a male. I'm still in college and it would be easier, I felt, to house a 1-2 year old male BP (he'll be 2 around when I graduate) than a female that might get larger.
That, and at the time, a male Pastel was affordable for me, so I was able to have a morph as a first BP--where a female morph was way out of my price range!
When I'm in grad school, I might get Auryn a girlfriend...Honeybees are my dream morph, but that $7,000 price tag is a little out of my reality zone. So, he might get a Spider girlfriend and there might be some breeding down the road for me. It'll take awhile to get a female reared up, though
So, I guess if you've got breeding plans, females in abundance are preferred with a speckling of studly males. If you just want a pet--females are a little larger than males, so I guess it depends on what you want in a snake?
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