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Ok i'm new to breeding, and i figured that colubrids would be a good start.. I'm wanting to go out and get a pair of "something" but i don't know what.. I'm really interested in getting into the morphs and stuff but i don't know what to start with, one of my fav "personal fav" is the candycain. I want to start this off right, and actually be able to make some profit off of it at the end. so i don't want to spend a hung amount of money right off.

what do you guys recommend..

If you want a good pair of snakes, I would see if you could get a pair of normal corns that are double or triple het (Kathy Love of cornutopia would be a good place to try). The more genes they are heterozygous for, the larger the variety of babies you'll have in each clutch. For example if you have two snakes that look normal that are heterozygous for Amelanistic, Anerythristic, and Hypomelanistic you would get a variety of babies.

Normals
Aneries
Hypomelanistics
anery/hypo (Ghost)
Amelanistic
Amel/hypo (what would this be?)
Amel/Anery (Snow)
Amel/Anery/Hypo (Coral Snow)

Throw in some of the more "fun" genes out there and you get more possibilities. I would have used the "fun" genes, but since I don't have any snakes with those genes I haven't learned the different combinations yet! If you get some with some pattern genes too, you'll get quite the variety!
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~Sasheena

I think it's pretty safe to say you won't see "profit" in breeding corns unless you put the money in to get something amazing to start with. Candycanes are just specially bred amels. (usually amel miami, then selectively bred to achieve the cleanest white ground color.) And so are not really a good one to use if you really are in it for profit. Though I agree, they are very pretty corns! I have one Bloodreds are still pricey, but nothing compared to Opal, and a few other multi-homo morphs.

I guess I just think if your goal is to profit, either spend the big bucks to start out with pricey morphs, or try a different snake. And if you have "normal" babies you are sometimes lucky to make 10$ on each. Not much profit there

Corns are easy to breed and care for, so they make good starter snakes, and good business snakes if you have the time/space/money to produce all the "higher priced" morphs, because the lower priced, or most common morphs are everywhere and cheap. A great snake!! But you gotta breed BIG TIME to make money I think.

But get a pair and do it for fun That's what I did, and it is fun
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