I am also new to breeding, but 2 things that I have learned is:
1) Don't put ALL your hope (or money) into one animal. I got 3 co-dom males and spent the rest of my money on proven breeder females. I'm glad I got more than one male because I now think one male will probably not breed this year, one probably will and the other is proven.
2) If you plan to start hanging on to poss hets, then you have that many more animals to take care of. I use to think I would buy 3-4 100% het males and wait the 2-3 years to breed the females back to dad. I would have been holding on to more than I was willing to keep and then it could possibly not proven out in the end.

In the end I hope to be able to buy more visual recessives from the sales of co-doms. Also I get to have some fun along the way by hatching out some visuals instead of normal looking ball pythons.
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Steve Smith
Midwest Reptiles
www.mwreptiles.com

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