How to pick the best bee?

[dragondavy]

I say save your cash and try to get them on your own, its much fun that way to breed two different morphs and hitting the odds, I mean thats what I did.
The best way to get a bee is to breed a Spider to a pastel female, well thats the way I did it and I landed with 3 bees,1 spider, 1 pastel and 1 normal. All the bees looked different in my clutch and I kept two of the bees for my collection and the other went to a very cool person. The only thing was out of all the babies they were all females, but I was happy.


Here are my two girls!
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This year I'm trying for pewters.

Good luck with whatever you go with, bees are very hot snakes and I always wanted one and now I have two.

[Papa Burgundy]

When I was shopping for a bee I looked specifically for a couple things.

1st: Lightness, the lighter the better. If they already have a darker appearance when they hatch, it will more than likely just get darker and brown out with age.

2nd: Cleanliness, I wanted a snake with as little "peppering" as possible. Plus clean well defined black markings.

I hand picked my bee from Brock and he can attest to the fact that I picked up and looked over each bee very closely several times before picking one.

Here is what I ended up with, he has darkened just a hair since this picture was taken but is still very yellow and bright.

Oh my dear god.
That bee is amazing and is exactly how I want my bee to look.
If Brock has pictures of the parents I would love to see them.

[nevohraalnavnoj]

I say save your cash and try to get them on your own, its much fun that way to breed two different morphs and hitting the odds, I mean thats what I did.

That's always an option. But when I start thinking about if I miss next year...or the following year...etc...and then my long term goals are set back years. Not to mention, what if I do produce a bee but it's less than stellar? I wouldn't want to make a mediocre bee my star breeder. Those are my two biggest reasons for wanting to purchase rather than shoot for it on my own....not to mention then I can shoot for killer bees right off the bat!


JonV

[dragondavy]

Thats cool, to each there own.
I see everyone wants to be the first to come out with a morph, I do it for fun.

When I started to see these prices, one day they are 3k and the next they are 900 I figured I do it my self, no rush here.
My first time breeding I landed what I wanted, so thats the way I do, if it don't happen thats all good maybe next time.

Well, you'll find a good deal now on a bee now that everyone has them and they are around 900 maybe less.

[JD Constriction]

A couple things I've seen, maybe others can chime in as well.

The same parents don't always throw the same pastels. Odd I know, but I've had 2 years of the same pairings produce and one year they were "ok" and this past year they were awesome. I'm hoping to get "awesome" again this year

Less than stellar animals sometimes throw you curveballs too and throw awesome animals. But I agree....I like to have the one I look at everyday be something I love openning the drawer to. It's twice as nice when that something is produced by your own hard work and patience.

[starmom]

I think pairing a NERD lemon with an especially clean and reduced spider makes for the lightest and brightest bees