Considering getting a blood...love 'em or hate em'?

they are awsome as long as they are happy lol

I love 'em. My Borneo has been a doll since day 1.

You may want to check out Borneo and Black bloods as I believe the red bloods tend to be the nippier of the 3.

Dennis

I'll keep the other two in mind, I wasn't aware there was a difference between the three beyond coloration. What is a fair price for a cbb baby at a show then? Similar to a normal ball?

Bloods/Short Tails are VERY color/lineage priced

A run of the mill baby thats farmed or brought in from Indo could be 50-100 bucks.

Id expect to pay 2-300 for a nice healthy animal

Now if you want cream of the crop NORMALS within each species, your talking high dollar. A lot of times even more than some morphs.

pray you get a tame one lol.

I personally wont have one just based on the fact on the mean ones sometimes just sit there and dont move until you startle them then the just explode. my heart cant handle that haha. im ok if I know the snake is pissed.

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Originally Posted by 2kdime

Bloods/Short Tails are VERY color/lineage priced

A run of the mill baby thats farmed or brought in from Indo could be 50-100 bucks.

Id expect to pay 2-300 for a nice healthy animal

Now if you want cream of the crop NORMALS within each species, your talking high dollar. A lot of times even more than some morphs.

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Thanks for letting me know! With this kind of species I really want to make sure and get the best possible animal. I'm not a fan of farm-bred or imports at all. You get what you pay for.

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Originally Posted by 2kdime

Bloods/Short Tails are VERY color/lineage priced

A run of the mill baby thats farmed or brought in from Indo could be 50-100 bucks.

Id expect to pay 2-300 for a nice healthy animal

Now if you want cream of the crop NORMALS within each species, your talking high dollar. A lot of times even more than some morphs.

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I agree :P,.. I love'em and would have one if I could afford the one I want. :rolleyes: One of these days.

Yeah, I have a lot more to learn about "blood" lines before I'll get one. I see so many on kingsnake etc.. It is hard to verify if they are c.b., w.c., or c.h., etc. It seems like the prices match up to a c.h. or wild caught so I'm very suspicious.

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Originally Posted by tsealock

Are these really bile shooting hell-beasts or sweet wittle cuddly sausages with heads?

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Both.

On the "pissy" scale, I rate my 2010 brongersmai a 6 or 7, down from an 8 or 9 when I first got her. I've had the "pleasure" of meeting pissy adults, but have also met perfectly calm adults AND babies!

I don't handle my little girl without my snake hook, because otherwise she invariably takes a swing at my, and in my experience with "taming" snakes, the more interactions you have with them where they DON'T strike, the less likely they'll be likely to strike in the future.

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Originally Posted by 2kdime

Now if you want cream of the crop NORMALS within each species, your talking high dollar. A lot of times even more than some morphs.

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I have to strongly repeat this. I saw a couple animals at NARBC back in october, SUPER beautiful "normal" red brongersmai bloods, that had a price tag of $1000 or $1200 for the pair. If I hadn't only budgeted $200 for that show, I would have bought them.

Wow, that steep for a normal? Really, I'm willing to pay more for better temperament than looks. I have yet to see a blood I didn't think was pretty, but it seems the more generations an animal is removed from the wild, the more docile it will be. Or at least, I can cross my fingers! lol