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to buy a ghost female and a het ghost male
or to buy a ghost female just for my male pastel

or an albino female and het albino male
or albino female just for my male pastel

Personally I would get a ghost female and go for the pastel ghosts.
I allways sit down an work this type of quandry out on paper. Bottom line is what do you most want to see pop out of the egg! Im working on the pastel ghost thing right now cos thats what I want to see. Im a few years off so by the time I get em I guess the money will be a lot less for them than it is now. But what the hell!

Go for what YOU want to see POP out of a CLUTCH OF EGGS. While the Co-Dom's will fall faster they also make the best combos with some of the other morphs so you couldn't go wrong either way. I am starting with pastels, spiders, and Pieds because I want to see:
1.Pastel Pieds
2.Bumble bees(spider X pastels)
3.PIED SPIDERS ?????
4.Normal pastels
5.Pieds
6.Spiders
But you can use some of the other morphs to produce these:
1.Pastel Ghosts
2.Orange Ghost pieds
3. Combos are endless !!!!!
So you really cannot go wrong with any morph.
But in my opinion for the money I would do PASTELS, Albino, Pieds, Spiders.....But it really depends on what you have to invest and how fast you need to get that investment back.

I spent 20,000 in 04 and it will hopefully come back this season on Pastels alone, and by next year I know I will get the $$$ back. Because for most morphs it takes atleast 1 year for a return and even Longer for the Recessive morphs. That is the way I looked at it when I DECIDED to do ball pythons. But anyway just my opinion. thanks David

Sure the co-dom are the big ticket right now! Look at it through another angle, if you were to invest, breed and raise any female recessive mutation AND THEN breed these back to the co-dom which will be a dime a dozen in the next 5-10 years, you will be that much more ahead of the game then everyone else investing in co-doms right now and low balling each other...

Work with the ones you like, there will always be a market for all of them, think long term as opposed to everyone thinking short term right now...

Brian Alston

In my opinion, I believe simple recessive is the best route. Co-doms will bring the faster money, but they'll also drop in price a LOT faster. It may take a while longer to produce a clutch of homozygous simple recessive morphs, but your initial investment (breeders) will hold value a LOT longer. The long-term value of a currently expensive breeder co-dom seems depressingly low. I can't imagine how sad I'd be to realize my $12,000 '04 co-dom dropped to merely $3500 by 2006.

Go for the Albinos. They are one of the more visually striking morphs and will certainly be in top demand for a long while. In fact, I'd say your best long-term investment morphs would be Albino, Piebald, and...hmm...let's see...I don't know...let me get back to you on the third one.

Chris
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"If only you would use your powers for Good." -- B. Russell Bethea

i am using male albinos on 100% het females. will be doing the same with pieds. my 3rd choice would be pastels - it seems like 50% of the morphs out there use these for combination.

I would still work with them because I don't mind hatching out 100.00 bills.....LOL.....A lot of people have spent more time hatching out 5.00 Albino corn snakes for years. So getting 100.00 for a albino, pied, pastel etc. would be kool with me if they ever drop that low, which I don't see it happening but I was just stating a point. Thanks David