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This is what I would do...

I would buy a Male Albino, a Female Salmon, and a Female Anerythristic. Breed these to produce Hets. Keep two Female Hets of each. Save your money, sell the rest and buy a Male Snow boa and a Male Ghost Boa.
With these 9 boas each male would have two partners(you could breed one every other year) and you would eventually produce Normals, Anerythristics, Salmons, Super Salmons, Albinos, Ghosts, Sunglows, and Snows.

This is the exact plan I am following and realize that it will take time and will not be easy, but very possible!
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Jaremy Douglas

Not sure how it got here...

oh well...

might as well post a pic...

i have been working on that one myself, still waiting on the hypo,its het for anery. gotta get a salmon though.
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IF YOU HAVE IT SHOW IT. IF YOU OWN IT FLAUNT IT!!

Hey Jaremey..You probably know who this is(since you sold me my normal):0)....I personally have a about a grand, and dad is suddenly willing to help fund my little project, so with any luck I'll find you at the show and you can help me decide. A built a few enclosures and was wondering if I should vent them and how many. Thank for the help

Terry

The show should be fun, especially since you have 2G! The size of the vents depends on how big the cages are and how many cracks/air gaps they have. For my 4ft by 2ft by 1ft I use slding glass track. There is some ventilation around the glass, but I also use 2" round vents at each end. It holds heat and humidity well and depending on where I keep the water bowl the glass only fogs up on the edges when they crap!
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Jaremy Douglas

Okay, so you have 2000. I would say if your going for what you listed, I would save a few hundred on top of this. Try to get an albino male at 800-1000 and pick up a female ghost 1500. So, your at 2300-2500. This gives you two animals to care for instead of three. The resulting offspring would be Hypos het for albino and anerythristic=Triple hets(For the anal ones....Hypos DH albino and anerythristic) and normal appearing dh snows. Downside is your laying all the cards on ONE female to drop a good litter instead of having two chances. But, if she does drop, you don't need to turn around and buy a snow or a ghost to breed back to the offspring. If you breed the offspring back to each other, you can get....hypos, supers, albinos, anerythristics, ghosts, snows, sunglows, and whatever the three traits combined create. Out of the breeding, the albinos will be 66% het anerys, the anerys will be 66% het albino, the hypos/supers will be 66% dh sunglows/snows. The total time frame should be the same as your listing, but you don't have the output for the snow or ghost down the road(currently 1500+/- ghost and 5000+/- snows) If your FIRMLY against breeding siblings back to each other, then this idea is totally shot, and that is a totally understandable possibility. Well, just shooting another way off the top of my head, so if certain details are a little off I apologize. Take care!

P.S. Whatever you decide on(for the guy doing the buying), I wish you the best!

Paul

I completely agree with your strategy but it does put all of your eggs in one basket. I did just see some Hypo het ghosts in the classifieds for $400. A female would be a great addition.
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Jaremy Douglas