Is the price right?

hmmmm....why was my normal adult (boy i think) so cheap? he was only 50 bucks and i think he's pretty darn attractive

price all depends on where you get your snake, who you get it from and what time of year it is. prices are always lower at shows and sometimes during non-breeding times.

oh.
i got him at the east bay vivarium which is a reptile/invertabrate pet store, in february. i think they get alot of people dumping off old pets to them and wanting no money. that's probably what he was, but i love him to death.

One can never have enough females, since one male can be bred with several females. Males on the other hand, are much less in demand. Normal females are as expensive as they are because they can be bred with dominant/codominant/incomplete dominant males and produce valuable offspring. Male normals on the other hand are pretty much worthless for morph breeding purposes. Even for people who breed normals, they will generally have more than enough males already and will always have some extra to get rid of. Nobody would bother to breed a normal male to a dominant/codominant/incomplete dominant female however, as they can breed that female to a different morph for a nice cross, another het of the same morph to produce a super, or just to guarantee a higher percentage of morph offspring.

However, although male normals may not have much investment value, they make fantastic pets. If it weren't for so many imported captive hatched/wild caught, male normals would be worth a lot more. They stay smaller, require less feeding, and are just as tame and nicely coloured.