Albino price?

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Originally Posted by CallmeUmaster

Sorry, i have to ask. Why in the world would you want them to still cost 1k?!
Personaly i think the cheeper the better, so everyone can enjoy all the beautiful herps instead of only the people who have lots of money to waste. I love herps but i dont have thousands of dollars to spend on a single snake, and im sure theres alot of people that are in the same position. Id love to own a pied but i cant and wont be able to afford it for a long while. It would be nice if herps were more reasonably priced so everyone can enjoy keeping these amazing animals instead of just those with lots of cash. Thats just my 2 cents.

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I bought my pair of het albinos in 2006 for...$800. That's a lot of money to me, and it took me awhile to be able to afford that. I have an albino now, but for what I paid for my hets, I could now just about get a pair of albinos!!! All the babies I now produce are going for less than half of what I'd hoped for. It's very disheartening when you see recessives drop like that....in that short a time. Heck, I remember the first time I laid my eyes on an albino many many years ago.....and that's when they were going for about $5k; pieds were going for $10k, pastels we're going for $2k!!! The albino was my dream snake for a long time.....and now that I have one, I feel like "living the dream" is not as big and exciting as I hoped it was. I love my albino, but you have to look at both viewpoints. If someone offered you $1000 for anyone of your snake because they thought it "genetic investment potential" wouldn't you take it, or seriously consider it?

...And just to add one one more thing, I think all BPs are beautiful....from my normal male to my morphs. And owning any of them and appreciating their beauty is a priveledge to me.

To the OP $250-600 is what I have seen as a of late.

I have also seen the decline in prices as a very sad thing as most of you have. While co-doms will drop faster than recessives its still disheartening to buy a pair of babies het or visuals and raise them up breed them and see the price half of less than what you paid for one. To be honest I don't think albinos should drop any lower they are a awesome morph. So as breeders we need to stick together and hold on your prices and slash just to dump animals.

Another thing I see happening is people getting codoms and not thinking quality over quanity. Breeding it to anything and getting even worest looking codoms. A lady at a local show once asked me if I was looking for anything in particular and showed me a baby pastel that to be honest was the brownest thing I have ever seen being called a pastel. I shook my head and walked away.

I'm new to this hobby, and I'm shocked that prices are dropping this much. I've been paying attention to prices for a few years but I just recently got into the actually hobby. Sure, I'd LOVE to own a pied or albino, but I don't want the price to drop. If I work hard to make the money towards that animal, I'm going to appreciate it more. But the prices now, are pathetic. I worked hard towards my cinnamon girl. She cost $450. Now to just about everybody else, thats "easy" to make (In quotes cause some people can make it faster and easier), but I'm a 14 year old highschool student who doesn't have a job besides babysitting my sister once a week for $20. It was a pain in the neck working for her, but now I believe I can work towards just about anything. Sure, I could have bought a cinnamon off some other breeder that was selling lower quality examples for around $250 or so, but I wanted MY cinny, and I worked towards it.

At a reptile expo last November where I picked up my cinnamon girl, I looked at almost every single stand there, even if there were no snakes. I saw a pied at this one table. There were other amazing looking snakes (A few more pieds, pastels, bees, and a BEL) and the pied was going for I THINK $1,000. Now, at another table, I saw basically the same thing. Except the table wasn't as "fancily" set up. The prices compared to the other table were shocking. They had a pied that looked way better then the pied at the other table, and this pied was going for $575.


As for the OP's question, here in the Southern Ontario, Canada region, the lowest I've seen for an albino lately was $300 for a 5 month old female. The highest I've seen was $1,200 for a high contrast proven breeder male. So like others have said it depends on age, weight and quality.

Ok, thanks for the lesson in python economics. lol As for the albino, I should be able to afford one if I buckle down by the menphis Repticon in october!:) (that is if I decide on a BP)