The market for new codoms....Up or Down? What your thoughts...

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Originally Posted by 250rider

I'm curious, how much does a say a pastel or spider go for in canada? I am from canada myself but I live in the states now. And where is the market there? I've bought my snakes from classifieds and and reptile shows over here. It seems that anybody I know in canada that owns snakes or reptiles aren't really aware of there being any "morphs"

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I think the market is stronger price wise cause the recession is not as bad here so basement breeders are not dumping there snakes at ridiculous prices. pastels go for 150m-450f and spiders are 300m-500f. As for Canadian knowledge of the bp morphs check out T.U.G. and markus and jayne who was the 1st to produce the axanthic pied ball and t.u.g has the lava ball, the candy or toffee, and the lemon frost still to be proven. Looking @ kingsnake i find u guys sell cheaper but not the big breeders, and the prices are the same if not worse/better on other things ie: lessers here a 6-700$ wheras i have seen them the same on kingsnake but ghost have been from $350-600
wheras here it is $350-$400.
I like co-doms cause u can make a lot of mixes but at the same time recessive combos are worth the wait. Hard work breeds good results. I believe there will always be a pastel or spider lover cause they are so cool but who doesn't like a pied or albino so it is all the same, buy/breed what u like and as far as the co-dom market being up or down i would same natural as supply and demand results in pricing. Everyone already has breeder size spiders and pastels but not the novices and i believe a high white spider or a good quality pastel will still fetch more than market value competing with the price of a ghost or an albino depending of course on your region and market value in that area.

Just wanna share my 2 cents regarding the topic, Im from the Philippines where bp morphs are just starting to hit the market. 2008 was the year codom morphs (hatchlings) flooded our market, and a pastel female worth over $400 (our currency converted to dollar rate), a pastel male around $300, and a male spider around $700. As for the recessive traits, an albino female cost $1100, and a ghost averages $800. And year 2009 came where more morphs became available and I observed a significant downfall on the codoms pricing, like a good size (400gms) female pastel is just around $300. And that is for the fact that we only have the basic morphs available here.

Getting back to the topic, I can see that this can be also patterned w/ the way new morph pricing is observed on your countries. Codoms are way very easy to produce, specially if you are just aiming in producing "mass production" for the sake of recovering what you spent. And it will just take a few years to make their prices very affordable. Unless, one who started the morph chooses to selectively breed the morph, and choose the person whom to sell the animal. Like the current status of the banana morph. Unlike recessive genes who takes years to produce a visual, unless you have a pair to start with.:)