Stupid expensiveness

oohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh now let me go and start yelling crap at the top of my lungs for an hours lol

I wonder if I direct my genetics professor to this thread she'll give me extra credit. :lol:

i hate not being rich lol

personally i think the high prices for morphs are reasonable but in a way irrational. some people love the morphs and the exciting colors. but look i can get a snow corn for 30$ where as i have to pay 600$ for a ball python. it somehow makes no sense to me what so ever. maybe people put in more work to breed ball pythons than to breed corn snakes. oh well i know i won't be getting a bp morph so their is no use in complaigning :)

i like alot of the morphs out there but can't afford them now. i'm starting a breeding group of green tree and ball pythons. hopefully all goes well, it would be nice to have a hobby that pays for itself, breaks even, or at best gives you income to get those expensive morphs!

thanks

vaughn

i would just like to breed one clutch of albino ball pythons and i would be set. albinos are my favorite morphs in all reptiles. they are brightly colored, have beautiful eyes and always stand out no matter what enclosure they are in. and they run kinda cheaper than other morphs(not by much though).

albino are cool, i've seen some ads as low as 550-650.00 for a 100% het pair. that is a good way to get one more affordably.
downside is you have to wait 2-3 yrs. and nothing is perfect.

thanks

vaughn

i couldn't breed unless i moved out of ny anyway. it is illegal to breed in the state of new york and soon it might be illegal to own a boid with out a permit. it would be cool to be bale to breed reeses with someone. well another morph i am a serious fan with and i can really understand the price are the lucy reptiles.

Just as corn snakes are easier to keep, they are also easier to breed. Ball python morphs don't come down in price as quickly as in other snakes because of the time it takes to grow a female to maturity, small clutch sizes, and a variety of other factors. Don't get me wrong... I think ball python morphs are definitely more expensive than they could be... after all, once you've got your breeding groups, they don't cost any more to produce than normals. However, you can't really blame someone who invested a lot of money into the breeding group for getting a bit of a return. And obviously, enough people are buying them that breeders can still charge these prices.

Ball pythons are going through the same thing corns went through 20 years ago
and hhw is correct corns have dropped in price considerably faster than the ball morphs simply due to clutch size and the abilities of corns to double clutch
corn prices were never as high as ball pythons are now but you need to realize that the market wasent nearly what it is today ... and all said i doubt that market would be here if it werent for the corn craze in the 70's and 80's
so just be patient the prices are the way they are due to supply and demand every year there is more supply