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Mikesss

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The wife has given me the OK to spend about $700 as long as it's with a payment plan. "YES I do have to get permission from the wife." I've got a decent collection but always want more. That's where the permission part come in. I would love to hear your opinions on what my collection needs but also why. You can post it here if you like, PM, or email me.

Here's my collection so far:

Females
Mystic Potion
Pastel
Calico
Cinnamon
Pewter
Sterling
Mojave
Super Mojave
Lesser
Pinstripe
100% Het. Pied
100% Het. Albino/Pied
Normal

Males
Special
Gargoyle
Butter
Sterling
Spider
PewterBee
Pied
100% Het. Albino/Pied
 
I would get a hypo combo male, and a hypo mojave fits right into your budget. I just think you could really use another recessive gene to work with, and a codom/recessive male is a good way to get that. Or maybe sell your spider and get a Honey Bee...or a hypo granite would be a really cool project to work into what you have.
 
How funny. I think you and I see eye to eye. About 2 minutes ago I just email someone about a pair with the Het. Hypo gene in it plus 1 codom gene in each one. A 3 gene total. 2 of which I don't have. Thanks for your thoughts. I really appreciate it!
 
hey Mike,

It really depends on the direction you want to go. I see the way most of your collection is going but you do have a couple lighter color snakes in there. Hypo is really cool with any morph. There again if you want to get into lightning up some of your genes, I personally would go with a fire combo male to start expanding your projects. I would look at perhaps a fire spider male then you can also move your spider out so you don't lose any rack space. It just depends on your direction. Do you want to stay with darker colors or lighter?
 
I have the Pewterbee that is replacing the Spider so Im going to have to sell or trade the Spider off. On the Fire Spider, I agree I should add the Fire gene. I think a nice female will be nice to have until I figure out exactly what I would use her for. Thanks Randy.
 
maybe a fire pinstripe or fire het ghost if you really wanted to go the ghost direction. So much of the great combos have fire in them to help clean them up. Most of the really big combos out now that do not have fire will in the next couple season, I will bet you! Plus even though the super fire is a white snake, it does not produce a white snake with others in that complex. Maybe another idea is sell the spider and put that money in to get enough for a clown male. Then you can make all sorts of morphs that are het clown. Good breeding potiencial and money/trade value.
 
Nice group of girls you got.
$700... I would get me a nice female enchi or two.
Male wise... something with YB or Fire in it. Those two genes are a must have.
 
get a pair of enchis :) why? because they are amazing and make awesome combos.....Just what I would do if it were me :D
 
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