How much have you spent on a pet Ball Python with no breeding intentions?

[ChadOwens]

I'm curious as to how many people are buying morphs as pets and what morphs those might be. Please say what morph you have as a pet!

[Evilme5229]

I started out with a plain old normal for my first. Than my next 2 snakes were a pastel and a spider.

I got two of my friends hooked on morphs. One started with a pastel and orange belly. The other bought a mojave.

Its really whatever tickles your fancy....some ppl can't fathom spending upperwards of over $200 on a pet. In my mind, if I'm spending that much money on a pet, I'm trying to breed it and also enjoy it.

[FIEND_FO_LYFE]

600 bucks. for my female pin.
i never planed on breeding snakes, EVER.
But... now i am haha

[Evenstar]

Well, it may be wishful thinking, but I'd really like a BEL and/or a pied one day. And I like the butters and bumble bees too. I don't know if I'd ever breed so if not, they'd just be pets. I raise German Shepherds from true German VA show and working bloodlines so I have NO problem spending oodles on a "pet" - of course, coming up with oodles is another story, lol...

[unspecified42]

I spent $700 on a ball/angolan hybrid without intentions of breeding him. I just think they're beautiful snakes!

[CoolioTiffany]

Before I thought of breeding I probably spent over $200 for my first Ball python.

By the way, I use that SAME dish in your avatar for my rat's food

[BOWSER11788]

it seems people who dont breed first morphs or only morphs are sypders and pastels, at most expos those, seem to be the cheapest.

[wendhend]

There doesn't seem to be a "below $200" category. That is where I would fall with the first normal ball python my family acquired seven years ago. Since then, she has become a breeder, though. Every snake I acquire these days I pretty much consider to be a pet with breeding potential.

[aff19802]

I think its safe to say that a large number of people started out with there first snake asw just a pet. then there are others that saw the money that was involved with breeding and just jumped in.

My first snake was a normal, the second was a pastel and had a female thrown in the deal, i didnt have plans on breeding still, the female was already a breader, which kinda changed that, although she is capable I still have yet to do so.

[Elise.m]

I bought my pastel for $200. When I bought her, I didn't intend on breeding her. All my others have breeding intentions, but are pets first and foremost.