Banana/Coral Glow

[alan12013]

LOL and now you can get them for under 700 from an auction with most breeders selling at 750...

[ajmreptiles]

yeah but its still a good project to get into and still has high popularity from what I've seen

[alan12013]

I believe it and I would love to actually. I understand how you can still profit from it even when bought at the higher prices but I just think that it shouldn't have come down that fast. It's almost comical that they dropped so much in only a couple years. If I ever get into investment quality snakes I now have at least an idea of the volatility to expect. I wasn't around to see the drops in any of the other high dollar morphs so this is the only one I have seen first hand.

[CORBIN911]

I believe it and I would love to actually. I understand how you can still profit from it even when bought at the higher prices but I just think that it shouldn't have come down that fast. It's almost comical that they dropped so much in only a couple years. If I ever get into investment quality snakes I now have at least an idea of the volatility to expect. I wasn't around to see the drops in any of the other high dollar morphs so this is the only one I have seen first hand.

Its not recessive, ALL Co-Dom/Dom genes drop fast

[TessadasExotics]

LOL and now you can get them for under 700 from an auction with most breeders selling at 750...

Actually you can get them for under 500. All listed prices are super inflated. Ball Pythons as a whole are crashing, and doing it fast. There is way too much greed and pore business practices, as a whole, in this hobby. People keep slashing prices 50%-75% each year for no reason other than to make a quick buck. You can now go pick up a ghi and a cg for under 900, combined.
Honestly a male cg isnt worth much more than 200 imo.

[Marrissa]

Its not recessive, ALL Co-Dom/Dom genes drop fast

Yep. A year ago I bought a leopard female for 750 shipped, and that was a good deal for the time. This year 2014 female leopards are 300-400 and I can get a combo leopard female for that 750 I spent. Anything easy to breed for is going to drop fast. I don't regret buying her one bit. By fall next year she'll be ready to breed and potentially make me three and four gene combo leopards.

[alan12013]

Exactly. Way too much business practices. Once people threw the word "investment" in front of ball python it ruined it for the time being... If you wanted you could pick up a mega combo male from an auction and breed the crud out of it then sell it and then auction off all the offspring. The volatility is completely controllable from the top too in my opinion. The auctions are probably the thing that upsets me the most, though I have built some of my collection using them. I've also shopped at walmart... It's way too easy to "invest" in the Ball Python market. It makes me sick. Some breeders are rewarded by this auctioning business with their practices in place. They don't care if they sell a rare snake or a common one so long as it turns a quick buck and clears out rack space for the next in line. I'm assuming that's whats going on anyway. I've been working on how to get around all this mumbo jumbo and still be able to profit from working with reptiles the way I want but it sucks knowing all the stuff that other people are doing. I do believe that I have a business plan (if I dare call it that) that I can be proud of. I can see where this is going and eventually there will be market corrections but in the mean time if I can get a nice snake that will help in my plans for 50 bucks then I'm going to do it. I think it's funny when I watch a commercial, err I mean youtube video, of some one talking about how the market works and this tiered system.

[ajmreptiles]

It all comes down to supply and demand

[alan12013]

HAHA ya and you believe in efficient market theory too...

[Mike Schultz]

Honestly a male cg isnt worth much more than 200 imo.

I have sold about 8-10 bananas in the past three weeks at $650-750 each so i don't know where this is coming from! Obviously they are worth that if they are selling!