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I've been interested and read about this for a while and was wondering if you guys could answer a few questions and follow up with some advice.

1. I dont have a lot of cash to start with and will be buying snakes here and there for 100-200. i would like some ideas on some good starter snakes to breed to get the hang of it.

2.Also a normal thats het for green ghost, what can I do with that? I mean besides breed it to another normal het for green ghost.

So if I have pastel het for ghost and bred it to a spider het for ghost, I may end up with a ghost bumble bee?

Anyway, I have tanks, a few snakes, just one morph, and a lot of repti care equipment. can you give some advice to a guy just starting out.
thank you
 
If you look around on here you can usually find pairs of patels or hets for close to $200. It's really up to you on what you want but those seem to be the cheapest and most readily available.
You could breed that normal het ghost to another normal and save all of the opposite sexed progeny to breed back to the parent. Hopefully one will be a het and you'll produce a ghost. That's cheaper than buying another het, but takes longer.
I'm not sure about the ghost Bees but you can always hope! Someone else, with more experience, will have to answer that one.

I started with a couple normals and a pastel and it cost me about $275 for them. Good Luck, hope this helps.
 
yes you could make humble bees. also in regards to the ghosts not all strains of ghosts are compatible from my understanding and why you would want to breed say an orange ghost to say a green ghost is a waist in my opinion the orange is much nicer looking and would be ruined by breeding to the green,imo. you can get orange ghosts fairly cheap now so there would be no need to start with a het visuals i have seen for around $150 to $250. i personally would spend the money on the single gene codoms first better bang for yur buck. and do not be taken in to by males every time you see them get as many females as you can they are usually harder to find and take longer to raise to breeding size. i look at it as males are a dime a dozen look in classifieds they are everywhere start raising some females then you can be selective on the males you get. good luck
 
gsrept said:
yes you could make humble bees. also in regards to the ghosts not all strains of ghosts are compatible from my understanding and why you would want to breed say an orange ghost to say a green ghost is a waist in my opinion the orange is much nicer looking and would be ruined by breeding to the green,imo. you can get orange ghosts fairly cheap now so there would be no need to start with a het visuals i have seen for around $150 to $250. i personally would spend the money on the single gene codoms first better bang for yur buck. and do not be taken in to by males every time you see them get as many females as you can they are usually harder to find and take longer to raise to breeding size. i look at it as males are a dime a dozen look in classifieds they are everywhere start raising some females then you can be selective on the males you get. good luck
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:iagree:

Couldnt have said it better.
 
Before you jump into this to start breeding, make sure you understand the costs and responsibilities that go along with it. You're going to need decent equipment, room to set-up everything with consistent temps, another room to quarantine new purchases (quarantine is a MUST!!!), and a constant supply of rats.

As mentioned, buy some females first. They cannot breed until a MINIMUM of 18 months, but it's better to let them get 2-3 years before the first attempt. Males can go as early as 6 months, if up to size. I've heard of some male going earlier, but that's rare. Could easily take 1-2 years or more. Buy females now and males next year. By then, the male you want will be even cheaper (values are going down).

When you're nearing the time to actually start the breeding process, you're going to have to have an incubator ready to go and a good baby rack. Plan to keep the babies for at least a year. That's not because you don't want to sell them any sooner, but because (especially for someone without a breeding reputation) there's a chance that they will not sell.

As far as all the morphs and combos, just start doing your research. There are so many variations that it will take you some time to figure out the differences. For example, the Het Green Ghost that you mentioned is Amir's line of the Het Red Axanthic, thus being a co-dom gene, not a recessive. It's not really a Ghost at all.

Good luck with your projects, but just enjoy the animals for now. It'll make the breeding part that much more fun!!!
 
Matt2979 said:
For example, the Het Green Ghost that you mentioned is Amir's line of the Het Red Axanthic, thus being a co-dom gene, not a recessive. It's not really a Ghost at all.
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I think your thinking of a green pastel Matt, there is a recessive green ghost/hypo line too ;)
 
snakesRkewl said:
I think your thinking of a green pastel Matt, there is a recessive green ghost/hypo line too ;)
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DOE!!! See what I mean about doing research?? There's so many variations, combos and just new morphs still being found in Africa that I still get confused!! :D

The Green Pastel is exactly what I was actually referring to as Amir's line of Het Red; however, the Green Ghost is still not compatible with the Orange Ghost/Hypo.
 
As Craig and Matt has already said, buy your females first and grow em up a bit, then go after the males.
 
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