Slip on banana

[BrianB801]

Anyone else steadily losing interest in the banana/coral glow morph? A year ago it was my number one dream snake, currently I am annoyed with the flood of these things on the market and what has to be a record decline speed in the financial value of an amazing looking morph. Crazyness.


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[kat_black181]

I think they're beautiful.

[BrianB801]

I think they're beautiful.

I'm not denying their beauty, just frustrating how non limited they are becoming. As a collector of shoes I prefer to own things that not every one has, something I can feel special about having because it's limited, and this just isn't gonna be the case for this gene. I honestly see them becoming as common as pastel or spider within a year or two, especially because they aren't a recessive gene and predominantly produce males which means the speed in which new clutches are going to be produced is going to be crazy fast.


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[decensored]

They are gorgeous, but like everything in the market now I am annoyed with the price drop. Nothing to do with the morph because the morph is absolutely amazing, I am annoyed with the market. But that is not exclusive to bananas, coral glows, or anything really. Give it 10 years and a scaleless BP will run you $500.

[bad-one]

I think they are absolutely beautiful but because of the intensity of color they seem to work best with pattern morphs- whereas, color wise I wasn't wowed by a lot of the combos I've seen. That's just my opinion though.

[Coopers Constrictors]

CGs/Bananas are incredible.

[Badgemash]

I think they are absolutely beautiful but because of the intensity of color they seem to work best with pattern morphs- whereas, color wise I wasn't wowed by a lot of the combos I've seen. That's just my opinion though.

Agreed. I have yet to see a single combo that looks better than the base morph to me, and since they don't retain those colors into adulthood I'm afraid I just don't 'get it.' I'm hoping the supers might retain the color saturation as adults, that would get me on board the banana bandwagon.

[kai414]

The declining price of the bananas has been fast and does suck, but you have to also remember that the banana gene is such an amazing morph that everyone breeding and keeping ball pythons wants one. That in turn makes it so that everyone in the community wants one. So being a single owner of a rare animal that no one has is almost impossible unless you find something and keep it to yourself. I personally don't mind the huge decrease in value cause I don't have the financial funds to buy an expensive snake. It's nice that I can afford a beautiful snake and breed it to make beautiful morphs since making money isn't important to me.

But to Brian I can totally understand your frustrations on how something so awesome and rare became so common and cheaper in such a short period of time. Really short at that. Being a predominate male making snake doesn't help the rarity issue for the fact that males are readily available.

[Crazymonkee]

Maybe I'm crazy, but they really don't wow me. I don't know why, I really like the darker morphs, aside from the bumblebee.

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[kat_black181]

I'm not denying their beauty, just frustrating how non limited they are becoming. As a collector of shoes I prefer to own things that not every one has, something I can feel special about having because it's limited, and this just isn't gonna be the case for this gene. I honestly see them becoming as common as pastel or spider within a year or two, especially because they aren't a recessive gene and predominantly produce males which means the speed in which new clutches are going to be produced is going to be crazy fast.


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I don't look at it that way because breeders are producing what consumers want. There will always be a huge market for bananas and the more visually striking morphs. It's just pure human nature to want something beautiful. I don't think there's any way to slow down that sort of demand.