New Albino Ball Python

Leucisitics fell into a few breeders hands this year. And that bumble bee is probably Kara's. Some morphs cost tens of thousands, some just a few. It's nuts, no hobbyist can buy an average morph for a while. It'll be years before prices drop to a pastel being about 200.

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If that will ever happen, I'm sure it won't. Ball pythons are WAY too up there in demand for any prices to drop even for years and years. Yeah, prices have dropped on albino's since Bob clark came across the first few, but not to the point where anybody or his mom can go out and buy one as if it were just a normal. If the price on an albino EVER drops to even $300, what the heck are we supposed be expecting to pay for just a normal? I don't think the prices will go anywhere.

That's my $0.02 :)

Jennifer

I bet the prices will drop significantly in the next ten years. Just my guess.

Prices are always the product of supply and demand. If enough breeders start cranking out albinos in greater numbers than the market demands, prices will drop. That's one of the "risks" of animal breeding. Since your buyers may also end up being "competition" in the future, it's tough to even try to maintain prices by limiting supply.

The "danger" to the market is the "mill" mentality breeders, much as have infested the purebred dog market, and some of the cage bird markets. "Mill" breeders will crank out as many animals as possible, with as little attention as they can get away with paid to proper care and animal health. All the mill breeders care about is getting as many sellable offspring in as little time as possible. If the parent animals' health suffers, oh well, as long as you're making money. Such breeders are bad for the species, and bad for the image of the responsible breeders.

Well, with ever season you produce thousands of homozygous and het animals. The albinos will make more hets or albinos the next season. The hets are then bought by hobbyists like us, and bred, so in two years the hobbyists have homozygous animals. It's gonna be booming in about a year or two, I'm pretty sure.

I wanna see pastels drop to 500, some are very nice, some aren't. I guess the lower quality should go at a lower price.

you can get a 100%het pair for like 800-900 and in two years you'll get a clutch of all albinos from breeding them. I think.

-almost,a pair of hets gives you 1 albino,2 hets and a normal.theoretically.Then again you could get all albinos,or all hets,or all normals,unlikely,but possible.
So the hets from the parents would be 66%because chances are 2/3 normal looking ones should be hets.
Make sense?Clear as mud?theres easy charts to figure out simple genetics.
heres a link- www.supersnakes.com/gwiz.htm

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Originally Posted by BallKingdom

Well, with ever season you produce thousands of homozygous and het animals.

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Try HUNDREDS, not thousands, especially on homozygous animals. There are fewer homozygous animals being produced than people estimate.

K

most definitly
i'm getting a 100% het orange ghost very soon from corey woods
i can't wait till next breeding season

sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I found some stuff in here ironic. Bumblebees for $45k, 100% het albino pairs for $900, and the fact that it will be years before pastels cost $200.

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