What to do with my Axanthic female...

[Ryan Chin]

As hard as it is for me to admit to myself, I am doing it publicly, an impulse buy got the best of me. This past September at the Sac Reptile Expo I bought my Axanthic 100% het Albino girl, despite her beauty and awesome personality(she's my second favorite snake as of now), I find myself regretting spending the cash(listening to my GF...le sigh), probably because of all the holiday bills, presents and me having to spend money on others and things I'm not really into right... Cutting back for me means staying at home browsing the internet and finding cool new projects I'd rather be into right now than the Axanthic project. Seeing all the most recent projects with enchis, clowns, and a bunch of others that are to many to name I come to the conclusion that I would have been better off investing in a project I feel more can be done with in the long run and are more interested in.

So my question is from here, how do I proceed?

I have tried putting her up for trade for a few weeks and asked multiple merchants if they might be interested in a trade, none are.

Do I keep trying to trade her for something I am interested in? Should I sell her and just get cash? Should I keep her, breed her and then sell/trade her?

In my position I just hate having the feeling I know I could have spent that money on something I would have rather had been growing up the past 2 years instead of getting it sometime down the road.

WWJD?

[RobNJ]

If she's really a nice axanthic, I'd say keep her. Still a lot of cool stuff to do with axanthics, and they definitely have their own group of fans. It seems as if every time people start crapping on axanthics, a new combo pops up and everybody goes "wow". Just watch what Jon Courtney is going to do with VPI True Ghost combos, and keep an eye out for axanthic fire combos, axanthic clown combos, etc...the stuff's only gonna get better.

[piedplus]

Hi Ryan. Maybe try writing out what you want to do in the long run. You might find a way to work her into your breeding plan. And if she has a great personality, that's especially worth holding on to. Personality could eventually carry more weight than it does now. If that happens, she'll be worth more.

[Aztec4mia]

despite her beauty and awesome personality(she's my second favorite snake as of now)

^^^^ from a small hoobyist standpoint this would be a good enough reason for me to hold on to her, there was obiously something that you saw that made it worht it to buy her in the first place.

From a large scale breeder/buisness standpoint, if you had no other Axanthic snakes or were not looking to get in the project then 1. you would not have bought her in the first place 2. you would sell/trade her and focus on your goal projects that would benefit you in the long run.


Last and more important,you gotta post some pics bro.

[PitOnTheProwl]

It is all up to you but what does your current collection consist of?

Personally I would be looking for a nice albino male for her to prove out the bino het.
The good thing is IF she didn't prove then the clutch would all be double hets