Only my second year breeding, and have hit the point that I need to start being more efficient with my trades.
Hoping for at least 3 females of each morph to hold back, have one clutch that will be P-het blue hypos and will hold back all those females.
A few nice male codoms (Fires, Pastels, and YBs) would be nice to trade for other males, het recessive females, or to sell to add to the snake fund and to spend on the expansion of the the snake room. Better (AKA taller) racks, etc. as well as to round out the vet fund.
Last year I was disappointed to hatch out too many codom males (so I just sat on them as the market was crashing) but at the end of the year they were a god send, traded and sold enough to be able to purchase a year's worth of frozen feeders, a freezer, new incubator, better thermostat, and more morph females.
Just seems to be that it is 90% of having a plan in advance, knowing how long you are willing to sit on them, when to sell, what you need, etc.
This year I will hopefully be more prepared with how the market (and black market) works.
Bruce
