Quote Originally Posted by kc261 View Post
Anyway, it is still good to plan your breedings based on where you think you'd like to end up in a few years. Since you want killerbees, I'd focus on producing bees. That means crossing a pastel with a spider.
Right that's my first goal but both my pastel female and spider male are still growing up (I just got both of them a few weeks ago) so the only real ready to breed male next season will be my pastel unless I get something else in the meantime. My spider, if he keeps eating like he does may be ready late next year in which case I've got a normal female that will be ready then also.

I just reread this and realized I've probably set a record for using the most words to say "do whatever you want". Oh well. Hope it helps you somehow.
No worries man this is all just projection now I'm thinking down the road as far as with my smallish collection what I can and can't do.
Quote Originally Posted by West Coast Jungle View Post
When it comes to codoms I say pull all the stops, you got nothing to loose and everything to gain.

Just cause you have a morph doesnt mean half its babies will be that morph. I know someone that bred a lesser to a normal this year and got 7 normals, see why a backup codom cant hurt.
Oh I know never to "count my morphs before they hatch". This is my hobby. I'm not doing this to make money. I'm doing it #1 for the pure fun of raising and keeping snakes and #2 for the fun of trying.... rolling the dice on that morph that I really want but just don't feel like dropping my whole college savings on!
I'm not really going to be playing with recessives for a while at least I'd rather have some nice visual morphs that down the road could make some more nice visual morphs lol.

Great advice guys! I'm a "plan ahead" type of guy so I really want to know where I'm going and what I can do with what I have and a couple more nice co-doms that I plan on getting.