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What to breed?

tompro019

tompro019

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Well, I know I am getting a late start, but I got some breeders the other day, and I don't know what I want to breed to what. I have several goldust morphs. males and females. I also have a male Opal Butter Motley that I want to put with somwthing Maybe: my Snow PH Lav, blood, stripe or maybe a Ultramel, maybe Hypo Lav blood. Any of these sound like something good?
 
Then it really becomes a personal choice. Since the corn market sucks right now I always recommend people to breed what they find most interesting.
 
I have a female butter motley that I want to pair with my opal butter motley. I will see how that comes out.
 
cmalchow said:
Then it really becomes a personal choice. Since the corn market sucks right now I always recommend people to breed what they find most interesting.
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What she said^^^^

Breed what you like and like what you breed, because right now the market stinks, you might be stuck with them for a bit. :)
 
I also have a male Goldust het hypo and a female Goldust het hypo, I am still trying to remember all morph stuff, so I can't think of what I would get If I bred the two.
 
Now see if it were me, that is what I would breed but I am partial to yellow snakes. You would get Golddusts and Hypo Golddust. I have never seen one personally so I would do it just to see a Hypo Golddust.
 
I love the yellow ones too. I have several goldust morphs. These are the goldusts I have.
Females: Goldust het motley, Goldust het hypo, and Goldust motley het anery.
Males: Goldust het hypo, Goldust stripe, and Goldust motley het anery.
 
male Goldust het hypo and a female Goldust het hypo
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Because of the way Goldust (Ultramel + Caramel) works, you'll get a mix of Goldusts and other results. According to the Corncalc, the above combo will theoretically result in:

3 / 8 Gold Dust ( Ultramel, Caramel ) 66% poss het. Hypo
3 / 16 Ultra Caramel ( Ultra, Caramel ) 66% poss het. Hypo
3 / 16 Butter ( Amel, Caramel ) 66% poss het. Hypo
1 / 16 Hypo Butter ( Amel, Caramel, Hypo )
1 / 8 Gold Dust, Hypo ( Ultramel, Caramel, Hypo )
1 / 16 Ultra Caramel, Hypo ( Ultra, Caramel, Hypo )

Be aware that a sizeable chunk of the Corn community believe Goldusts to have been derived from hybridisation, so you may not have as large a market for those. However, it shouldn't make a difference if you're breeding for the pet trade.
 
Another thing to be aware of, is that it's difficult to visually tell GoldDusts from Ultra Caramels. I only made the mistake of breeding a GoldDust x GoldDust pair the once, and ended up labelling the offspring "GoldDust or Ultra Caramel" when I sold them! After that, I went for GoldDust x Butter pairs - this results in GoldDusts and Butters which can be easily distinguished.

I think Susan's got closest to managing it so far. Here are a few discussions that we've had in the past, which might give you some hints:

http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=113047&highlight=ultra+caramel+golddust

http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=105095&highlight=ultra+caramel+golddust

http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=86582&highlight=ultra+caramel+golddust
 
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