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Welcome to BPNet Dan. The best advice I can give you about online purchasing is take some time now to do the research and figure out which breeder you want to go with (especially for a higher dollar purchase). Ask around either in the forum or privately about different breeders, talk to those breeders by phone and get a feel for who you want to work with. Basically you want a breeder that will be helpful to a newcomer, that will be there before, during and long after the purchase as you are bound to have some questions/concerns as you go through the process.

Fauna BOI is a handy tool for looking up people and businesses. You can sign up for free and search by both the breeders personal and company name. Not just for comments about them but I always find it handy to see their own comments about others. The BOI certainly isn't the be all and end all of information but it can be a handy piece of the puzzle as long as you back it up with your own research, talking to people who have purchased from the breeder and your own take on the breeder.

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...play.php?&f=13

Best of luck with your purchase of your first lovely morph!

Hey Dan, welcome to the site! Females generaly run higher priced than males, but in certian morphs the females are less exspensve.

Adam Wysocki of 8 Ballpythons frequents this site and is a great person, with quality animals and killer customer service. Go to the Morph and Genetics forum and do a search for spiders and albinos. Adam has a few threads with some pictures.


And again welcome to the site!!

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Originally Posted by newbpfanatic

Hi every, I've been a visitor here and other reptile forums for a few weeks now and finally decided to join up. I've kept numerous reptiles as pets of one form or another in my teenage years. I kept a few boas and burmese as a teenager. Long story short, I got married at twenty-one, wife got rid of the snakes, rocky marriage, got divorced a couple months ago at twenty-eight and discovered a renewed love for snakes! Maybe this time I should find a woman that loves or even tolerates reptiles!

I will admit, I have not been much for on-line forums of any types. The reason I signed up here is, I want to learn more about Ball Pythons in general. I have one girl that is about three years old according to the previous owner that works at the local PetCo. He informed me that the best place to learn about snakes was on-line and told me about Kingsnake.com along with a few other sites. My only herp conversations have been limited to picking up some fish food and tank supplies from PetCo.

First, I was amazed to see how far the herp world as come in the past eight to ten years! I never thought I would see snakes being sold for $10,000.. :eek:. All I knew was pet store snakes that sold for $30-$125 around locally back in those days. I would love to buy a Spider or maybe an Albino BP, I've fallen in love with about ten other color morphs in the past couple weeks. Another snake I would love to own and most definitely will, is an Albino Boa.

I have a two bedroom townhouse and God willing can convert one room into a reptile room.
Sorry for the long post, I just thought I would say hello and break the ice.

Dan

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Welcome to the site Dan!

Thanks, I'm sorry I haven't posted very much since joining. I work long hours and get home beat, ready for a shower and a bed. I did start a thread in Fauna asking similar questions and received some good information on the thread and in private message. I've also spent time chatting with a few breeders that have offered their assistance and advise this past weekend.
Thank you all!

I'm actually scheduled to pick up a 2006 Spider male and 2006 Albino male from a local breeder just thirty minutes away. Based on the prices I have seen advertised on Kingsnake and a few breeder websites, I think I'm getting a great deal on both snakes. The best thing about buying local, is that I get to see the snakes, hold the snakes and see them eat before paying. Even though I've been assured that thousands of snakes get shipped each year across country with a very low percentage of incidents. I'm still not totally comfortable in paying for something like this without seeing it first hand.

Thanks for all your help and I'll be sure and post pictures in the picture forum once I pick them up and get them settled. My next purchase down the road or as soon as I pay down my Visa will be a nice Piebald, those things are unreal in pictures! For this one, I'll probably wait for next years babies as I'll be better off financially and I've been told prices will come down further.

Thanks,
Dan

P.S
I was going to build some furniture style cages out of wood with a nice stain, but would I be better off with some of these plastic cages? I just don't think they would look very nice in my living room or bedroom. Maybe once I converted and dedicated the spare bedroom into a reptile room, but I would still prefer some nice display cages rather than pet store like black cages.
Any pros and cons to these?

the plastic cages would be MUCH easier to clean and maintain in general. I would think there would probably be a way to build somewhat of a frame around them, but honstly a grey or black cage really doesnt look bad, and with the morphs you're mentioning...no one is gonna notice the cage anyway ;)