Can't decide... Albino or Lesser?

[Markus Heinsohn]

Good morning

I would like to breed my spider male to a female in a couple of years, but I cannot decide which female morph to get. I do not want to spend more than $1500 on a single animal.

The options are:
1) Female Albino... in the first year I could produce spiders het albino, and then by breeding those back to the mother I could get spider albinos (link) in about 4 years, which are beautiful animals.

2) Female Lesser Platinum... this lady combined with the spider would produce lesser spiders, a beautiful snake IMO (link), and by breeding back to the mother I'd have a shot at blue eyed lucys in 4 years.

I just can't decide... I like the look of an albino a bit better than a lesser, and the simple recessive morphs usually hold up their price tag longer. However, producing an albino spider takes twice the time of a lesser spider, and I simply love lucys, and there is no way I'd have a shot at these with the albino of course.

So, what would you do, or do you have other suggestions?

Thanks for your thoughts!

Cheers,
Markus

[starmom]

Hi Markus, I think you chose when you said that you like the look of an albino a bit better! It's important to really love what you're looking at or the hobby can become boring really quickly! Albino spiders ROCK!!!!

[Mikkla]

I'm not saying what you should do, but if I were in your shoes I would go with some big normal females. And then breed your spider and a lesser male to them to get some nice lesser and spider females to raise up and some males to sell so you can buy that albino female.

[Freakie_frog]

Hi Markus, I think you chose when you said that you like the look of an albino a bit better! It's important to really love what you're looking at or the hobby can become boring really quickly! Albino spiders ROCK!!!!

Agreed get what you like and the devil with what prices will do in the long run.

[jdmls88]

lesser without a doubt

[BT41042]

I'd grab both...LOL...
BT

[Markus Heinsohn]

Hi Markus, I think you chose when you said that you like the look of an albino a bit better! It's important to really love what you're looking at or the hobby can become boring really quickly! Albino spiders ROCK!!!!

I could even stare hours at the most ordinary normals, that's how much I like this hobby

[cassandra]

I could even stare hours at the most ordinary normals, that's how much I like this hobby

Right on...the ball python is just such a gorgeous animal with so many differences in that beautiful undulating pattern and natural colors...=)

Personally, I'd go with the lesser, but you should go with the color and animal that makes your heart go pitter-patter the most! =)

[monk90222]

Lesser.

[Gary Orner]

IMO out of the two I would go with the Albino.

But also nice combo would be a Orange ghost.

I mean the combos to go into the spider are endless and some have not been done yet.

The Bee Axanthic is SWEET!

The question you have to ask yourself is what do you want. What projcts are you looking to build.

You can not go wrong with albino. IMO