Piebald Thoughts?

Pieds are nice, and well worth it if you can afford them. They are not my #1 though. The price may have gone down, but my love will always be an albino. I cannot afford one on my income, but I can save up for a pair of hets, and I will get them. One day I hope to produce an albino-pied...so amazing (not the dreamsicle-lav albino+pied, though those are nice too)

A lot of people would not think twice about albinos, because there are so many, but I love them. All that really matters is what you think, nobody else's opinion matters when it comes to getting/producing YOUR dream snake.

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Originally Posted by Brandon Osborne

Buy hets and produce one. That's what I did....and my hets were $4k pair in 2003. My first breeding produced 4 pieds and 5 pos. hets. My second breeding produced 4 more pieds and 4 more pos. hets. Now I'm producing Pewters het for pied, pastels het pied, and more. Het pairs can be found now for around $500, and maybe less. Save your pennies and get some. You'll appreciate them more.

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I started out with the same idea... Get hets and make my own pied... Note the signature saying I'm getting poss. het pieds next month lol... But the more I think about it... I really, REALLY want to get a visual male to breed to them.

*sigh* There goes my tax return. :D

Historically, what have prices been like? I went to the NARBC show last weekend and saw one for the first time. I think they were ~$1500-2000.

I'm just curious what a similar snake would have cost a year ago? Two years ago, etc?

Pieds two years ago were 5000.00 and the year before that they were 8K

Wow, so the people who are selling $1800 hatchlings probably paid $15,000 for the parents? Interesting.

If $1200 for a Pied is too much for you, you have the option of buying a pair of Hets for much less.

If a Ferrari was affordable to everyone, would it still be a "Ferrari?"

I can't take credit for this insight, as I originally heard it from Garrick DeMeyer of crestedgecko.com

If you want to find the snakes that have mass appeal, bring over a group of friends who are non-educated about snakes, but still interested in learning. Take out various morphs, and with little commentary of your own see which ones make them go "ooooh" and "aaaah". There are some morphs that will always be in that list, and so will always be in demand by the general public. Pied is on that list, and so is ALWAYS a solid investment at any price.

Just my .02.

JonV