Price Differences

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Originally Posted by Gibber19

What repercussions could there be? I don't imagine breeders being very adamant on betraying their customers if Uncle Sam came calling. And unless you told your insurance company, which is a bad idea(they'll just unnecessarily drive your payments up), there wouldn't be any proof of owning a big snake. Unless of course gov't agents went door to door.

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I was talking more about having to pay hefty fees for ridiculous permits and such, but our government is filled with socialist scum bags so I wouldn't put anything past them.

Or there's folks that actually follow the law so that they don't get into trouble, possibly resulting in losing all the animals they own, regardless of species, getting the hobby into more trouble by being a bad example the opposition can hold up and point at, not to mention the possible fines and/or jail time depending on the law/location/level of offense. All it takes is one disgruntled former friend, an angry ex- of a friend or you, a neighbor who happens to find out through happenstance... and you're busted and the authorites wouldn't have a choice to just let you pass, just because hey, you're a good guy and REALLY like your pet.

Everyone has pretty much hit on all the points. If ball pythons laid 40 eggs in a clutch, we'd see much lower prices too. In a given area, you could breed for albino balls for a few years without filling the LOCAL demand for them. But you could easily fill all the slots and have leftovers if you bred a burmese, due to lower demand/appropriate homes and number of albinos produced in a single clutch. So the price goes lower to try to entice buyers... and then you have low priced burm morphs.

Im going to have some money to invest in some animals in a few months and I REALLY want to invest in caramel burmese pythons. But im terrified to becasue theres so many laws going around on them.

Burmese pythons are banned in Florida. That's an entire state that can't buy one. Not even a permit will get you past the ban.

The only people allowed burms here are those who owned their burms and have permits in 2009 and prior.

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Originally Posted by Denial

Im going to have some money to invest in some animals in a few months and I REALLY want to invest in caramel burmese pythons. But im terrified to becasue theres so many laws going around on them.

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Couldn't imagine missing out on caramel!

I was actually planning to move to florida until they went all crazy and made all those crazy laws.

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Originally Posted by anatess

Burmese pythons are banned in Florida. That's an entire state that can't buy one. Not even a permit will get you past the ban.

The only people allowed burms here are those who owned their burms and have permits in 2009 and prior.

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Not true - from FWC's website:

"Reptile dealers, researchers and public exhibitors may apply for a permit to import or possess conditional snakes and lizards. "

http://myfwc.com/WILDLIFEHABITATS/No...alReptiles.htm

Albeit, it is now impossible for a hobbyist or private pet owner to get them here, the FWC will issue permits to anyone who qualifies as any of those they listed. I would still personally like to move to a state where the rules are less strict, though.

then come on down to sc. We can own pretty much anything other then american alligators