Well, either I'm lucky, crazy or both. I'm making arrangements to put down a deposit on a baby Black-Headed Python. The eggs are laid, and by the time they hatch and the little "Aspidites melanocephalus" are eating on their own it will be January 2007.

The wife and I fell in love with them and started reading (see this month's reptile magazine) and did some more research and decided to bite the bullet and start the process of owning one of these amazing snakes.

This will by far be the most expensive snake I've ever owned, normal BHP hatchlings start out priced like some middle-to-high-end Ball Morphs.

Of course, after he (we expect a male unless the breeder hatches out very few boys) gets settled in, it won't matter what he cost, he'll just be "fred" or "george" or whatever we name him.

Maybe I should name him "Datsun" like the old brand of car, since this snake is going to cost as much as my first car.