I mostly look for pairs that will either give me the widest possible range of morphs (and as few normals as possible) or that match up genetically.
This year I will have:
Sunlog male paired to a vibrant RO - looking purely to make really bright amels.
Ghost lavender paired to dark hypo het anery - she made some fascinatingly dark hypos last year when paired with the male's father, might keep back some this year.
Ghost lavender paired to Charcoal het amel - Ghost lav is 66% het charcoal, so het-checking with this pairing.
Anery to Ghost het amel - Sweetcorn project. The female I kept back from 2014 is incredible. Hoping to spread the best babies around to others wanting to work on this idea.
Wraith (phantom lavender) het diffused to Pewter - Charcoals and pewters out of my near black female, all het for hypo lavender diffused.
In 2017, my charcoal moonstone gal, my 'ghost lav' gal that I suspect might actually be a bansidhe, and their anery sister will be tested, as will Bansidhe himself. Lacy's son will also be big enough to breed, so hopefully I'll get some darker pewters out of them. With luck, my insanely red little amel will be big enough to pair with Dier, the 'sunlog' and my peppermint and Cathy's peppermint will go at it. That's going to my super crazy year.