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I have a breeding pair of Desert Kings, Great yellow speckles on black. I want to breed to get something different in the future. What would you suggest breeding the female to and the male to, to get something nice to look at.

I know there are albino splendidas. I'm not sure what other splendida morphs exist. I'm looking to get into breeding splendidas myself. How many years have you had/ been breeding your current pair? How many eggs do they produce each year?

reako45

>>I have a breeding pair of Desert Kings, Great yellow speckles on black. I want to breed to get something different in the future. What would you suggest breeding the female to and the male to, to get something nice to look at.

It's not clear to me whether you've bred these before. If you haven't, I suggest you do and see what the babies look like. That should be an enjoyable breeding season for you.

If you're emotionally attached to them and want to limit your collection to two animals or three, buy another splendida female and bring her to the male. Then you can see how those babies compare with the ones from the first female. Or pick up a morph male or female. I think you might find anerythristics, hypos, maybe amels. Adding a single animal will start a two-generation project. Or you could add a pair of one of those morphs and see fascinating results the first year you breed.

If you haven't bred them and are not emotionally attached to them and want to limit your collection to two animals then sell them and buy a different pair of kings. If not a pair of splendida morphs, try california kings. You could get a pair carrying multiple morphs, that could produce striped and banded babies, possibly even in blacks and browns, and whites and yellows, since you're looking for "something different" and "something pretty". Or try one of the other king subspecies, they're all pretty. Just don't mix them with your splendida, which you obviously value for what they are. .