If you had 10K to spend

What I would get definitely has to do with herping.

I'd get a Nikon F5 and Nikon D700 or D3 - both full frame cameras, one film, one digital. Get the 14-24mm lense, a 35mm, 50mm, 105mm macro, and telephoto lense (with or without zoom, probably without). A nice tripod, flash, camera bag, and other goodies to go with that.

I'd take it out into the field and start shooting! Oh, maybe a pic or two of ball pythons...

Later, Matt

I would try to pick up as many of the following males as possible:

Pastel Sugar / Calico
Firefly
Desert
Lesser Pastel
Clown
Pied
Genetic Stripe
Lavender Albino
Lemon Blast
Pastel YellowBelly
Axanthic
HumbleBee
SilverStreak
Champagne

And as many Breedable CBB Normal Females as possible.

After your first year breeding, you could hold back what you want to keep, and sell or trade the other offspring and pick up the following females:

Black Pastel / Cinnamon
Fire
Pinstripe
SuperPastel
Pastel
Spider
Mojo / Lesser / Butter
Woma
Enchi
Pastel YellowBelly
YellowBelly

As well as picking up as many females of the following Morphs, or CoDom females that are het for the following:
(With papers from a trusted breeder.)

Axanthic
Hypo / Ghost
Albino
Clown
Genetic Stripe
Pied

You may be better off selling the Carpets first, and using that cash to purchase the females from the same breeder(s) when you purchase the males.
The more cash you have available to spend in one lump some with a breeder, the better the prices on all of the animals are.
A breeder is a lot more willing to haggle over a $15k-$20k purchase then a $2500. purchase.

I take it you are wanting to breed. I would go for super co-doms, visual recessives, and combo morphs as close to breeding age as possible. Bees, BELs, super pastels, oh and 100% hets for other morphs if possible for alot of these male/female pairs of co-dom morphs. Alot faster return with the highest percentage of visual morphs and combo morphs from breeding right off the bat.

At todays prices? You could probably get a pair of everything and have plenty left over for some nice racks.

Toffee ball hets. 10k/pr

look em up...theys some purty creatures.

i would buy a few racks for hatchlings and adults. buy a few nice bps. raise them up and breed them. since its my dream to breed bps :)

Double Recessive Combos!!!

I would go with codom and codom het simple recessive females and a few simple recessive males to breed them to. I do not like to produce normals, so that would solve that problems. Combos are where it is at, and simple recessive / codom combos should hold their value longer than codom combos.

I get the 10K in cash, pay about 1K for a trip/hotl to go to BHB's shop. With 9k cash in your pocket, I'm sure you'll leave there with a crate full of bad a$$ snakes and even some Snakebytes tv schwag.

I'd go for as many double and triple co-doms....het hypo cause I loves me some hypo. As many reduced female adult as possible.