Decision help- 10 year old female normal bp

I former co-work just contacted me that her son is joining the navy and since she remembered I have BP's would I be interested in buying his female bp. Since he's going into the navy and she can't/won't take care of her, they are motivated sellers. lol While she doesn't know the weight- the bp is well over 10 years old so it's probably well into breedable size.

I can make room for 1 more and it would be nice to have 2 breedable size females to work with. (I currently have 1:1 het VPI Axanthics which have had their first visible lock a few weeks ago.)

Especially since I am finallly buying a visable male pied at the upcoming show in June. So the questions are:
1) Should I buy her?
2) What's a fair price for a 10+ year old female (normal) bp?

I know the gentics of breeding anything I currently have to her will just be het. And even breeding the male pied to her will be 100% het pied.

Thanks in advance helping me off the fence one way or the other.

I would get pics of her and a weight before making a decision, and sex her too to make sure. She may be underweight and underfed even at 10 years old, you never know until you see her in person. Pricing depends on her size.

She sent me a pic- I have no doubt it's well over 2000grams and looking pretty healthy (in the pics at least). And I know she is an animal lover so I have no doubt it's been well cared for.

I do have some concerns on the gender but they are pretty certain it's a female it was popped when they bought her. If it wasn't for the facts it's a 2hr drive each way and I don't trust myself popping a snake to sex it (even if she wasn't so big) I'd try to sex her before hand. I typically have the local LLL reptile pop/probe for me.

If it's indeed over 2k grams and a female I would offer ~$100 or so (probably less if they just want to move her). I picked up three proven bigger clutch egg-laying big females all over 2K grams for $125-150 each, so if she's a virgin female I would personally pay a little less than that. Just my .02

Solid advice from Daybreaker...and also keep in mind, that you don't know who supposedly popped it when they first bought it, and if they knew what they were doing....

I would offer $70 max since it very well could be a big male normal.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Daybreaker

If it's indeed over 2k grams and a female I would offer ~$100 or so (probably less if they just want to move her). I picked up three proven bigger clutch egg-laying big females all over 2K grams for $125-150 each, so if she's a virgin female I would personally pay a little less than that. Just my .02

---

Funny how everywhere else is in life a "virgin" usually gets more $$$. :D But yeah- she's a virgin/unproven. My friend just hinted at a small fee for the cage, bowl, lamp, etc. Honestly I'd be really surprised if she would even take more than $60 from me.

So given that it's a virgin, normal and possibly female, at 2000+ and in the $50-$80 range- deal or no deal?

Deal. At that price it isnt a very big gamble at all.

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone for their advice/tips. I picked her up this past weekend. Got her settled in and she is definately eatting like a champ. I'll get her on the scale tonight and take pics but she is definately well into the 15+lb range- guessing she's pushing closer to 20lbs. I gave my friend $70 since she came with a huge tank (which I'll probably cl soon), undertank heater, 2 heating lamps, branch, etc. Now I just need to find someone local to San Diego I can arrange a breeding loan with.

I didnt know BPs could get that big.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Weapon-x

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone for their advice/tips. I picked her up this past weekend. Got her settled in and she is definately eatting like a champ. I'll get her on the scale tonight and take pics but she is definately well into the 15+lb range- guessing she's pushing closer to 20lbs. I gave my friend $70 since she came with a huge tank (which I'll probably cl soon), undertank heater, 2 heating lamps, branch, etc. Now I just need to find someone local to San Diego I can arrange a breeding loan with.

---

Wow. Are you sure its a ball python? can we see some pictures of her please?

Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 2