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RE: Need some advice on my next purchase

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Posted by: jaymiller242 at Sun May 24 13:25:46 2009   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jaymiller242 ]  
   

Spiders are cool and you can do so much with them. Since you like spiders and you can never have to many Morphs maybe this would be a good way to go. The Cinnies and Black Pastels are great too but maybe a breeding size male Spider is the answer. You have 2 female Normals that will be great size for breeding this fall if you feed them well and also your male Pastel should easily make breeding size. You get a breedable male Spider, put him to one of your female Normals and use your male Pastel for the other female Normal. Odds would be out of the 2 females and the male Spider and male Pastel you would get half the babies as Normals, a quarter of the babies would be Pastels and the other quarter would be Spiders. Then you hope a lot of the baby Spiders and Pastels were female. The only reason I suggest the breeding size male Spider over the Cinnie or Black Pastel is the cost. You are much more apt to get a better deal on a large male Spider than on a large male Cinnie. Neat combos either way and the as time goes on you could make Bees, Killer Bees, Super Pastels and the such from those combos.. The Spiders and Pastels are a great combo makers no matter what you put them with down the road as you aquire more or different Morphs. Chances are that your female Pastel will not be up to breeding size until the fall of 11 and spring of 12. Regardless feed them well while they will eat because so many of them go off of feeding in the winter months and that is where you will get slowed down. Hope that is helpful.
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JEM from sunny AZ.



2.20 Normals

5.9 Pastels

3.6 Normal Spiders

1.3 Orange/Butterscotch Ghosts(BallPython777 Mark Petros)

1.1 Spiders 100% het Ghost(thanks Mark Petros)

0.2 Spiders 66% het Ghost

0.3 66% het Orange Ghost

0.1 Pastel Ghost

0.1 Super Pastel 100% het Ghost

2.0 Albino

1.0 Caramel Albino

0.4 100% het for Albino

0.5 50% het for Albino

0.4 Yellow Bellies

1.2 100% het for Clowns

1.2 Cinnamons

1.2 100% het for Pied

0.3 66% het for Pied

1.3 Mojaves

1.1 Beautiful Black Pastels(thanks Gulf Coast Reptiles)

1.1 BumbleBees(thanks for the AWESOME Bees Marc Bailey)

1.0 Super Pastel

0.1 Chocolates(Thanks Brandon of Priceless Pythons)

1.1 Lessers

2.1 Fire's(Thanks Brandon of Priceless Pythons)

1.2 High White Calico's(Thanks Brent from BRB)

1.1 SpotNoses(Thanks Brandon of Priceless Pythons)

1.0 Enchi

1.0 Orange Ghost

1.0 Pinstripe

0.1 Lemon Blast

1.0 Vanilla Ghost(Thanks again GCR for all the great snakes)



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