ALL Ball Python breeders, STOP posting photos with no info about what you posted

[KMG]

How many times do you need to see the process? I believe that most people buying a snake will know the process and they are really only interested in the end results. However, I know plenty of people actually do a pretty detailed thread on their clutches. Maybe search and follow those people.

I do not understand why you believe a breeder should create a long article here. This is not a magazine.

[dr del]

Some of us who were there at that time too remember it differently.

They laid it out so well nobody knew about the spider wobble, caramels kinking etc.

To find out what made combo's you usually had to buy one and then they would explain.

When I bought my first ball python there was only one proven morph known - albino.

And I'm a newb compared to some of the folks on here.

[angllady2]

While I do occasionally wonder at the stunning photographs of never-before-seen morphs, and wish the breeder would at lest give some hint as to what is in it. To come to a public forum and demand that all breeders MUST tell me exactly what is in each and every snake they photograph or not post the picture is pretty damn arrogant and ignorant.

A breeder who has invested years of time and thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars on a new project is not going to want every Tom, Richard, and Harry out there who owns a ball python to start pumping out dozens of identical or similar morphs and flood the market, thus insuring the breeder won't even be able to sell the animals he worked so hard to produce. So why don't you just get down off your damn high horse, and if you want to know what's in one of those never-before-seen morphs, then save up your money and offer to buy one from the breeder and then you'll know what's in it.

Otherwise, stop looking at the pictures and then you won't have anything to complain about, now will you?

Gale

[200xth]

While we're making demands, I want a pony.

If you're not happy with the advertising don't click, don't buy? Or am I missing something?

[Dave Green]

I think this thread needs some pictures

[chrisv]

I think this thread needs some pictures

Agreed! Pics or it didnt happen!

[Ransack]

Boohoo ..............news flash the world does not revolve around YOU and no one owes YOU anything.

Not a boo hoo situation. I’m being calm and logical here. If you thought you were coming in here to give me the business, I ask that you think again.

Another poster stated in this same thread that it is not the breeders responsibility to state what animals were used, that is very true but it truly does behoove the breeder to do so. Especially if we are talking about a triple or quadruple gene co dom anima as it sort of doesn’t matter what you have outside of breeding potential as you and everybody else still have to hit the odds to reproduce that animal.



If you are a hobby breeder and simply want to show off a hatchiling that you produced that is beautiful, hard to hit on or both, fine. But if you have any interest at all in selling your offspring It’s not like it needs to be a top secret . You won’t get a clutch of that exact animal by even breeding two of the same animal together. So instead of odd self congratulatory, self promotion by simply posting a blank photo of a animal, why not try telling the BUYING public exactly what was used to garner interest in the component genes that are rapidly falling in price…AND LETTING THEM KNOW YOU HAVE THE HATCHILINGS AND CORRESPONDING GENES AVAILABLE TO MAKE THIS ANIMAL AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE.

I would rather stoke peoples interest and excitement for the hobby and a project than play peek a boo with other breeders.

Once again I'll state that I feel posting mysterious pictures without a back story or project details and answering no questions is counter productive to sales and public interest past that first 24 hours.


To be honest if we are talking simple recessive , I don’t believe I have ever seen a recessive project not promoted to the moon and back because usually one or two people have the market cornered.


I feel I stated my case clearly and concisely. Deborah and Pitt on the Prowl do you have a counter point instead of "BOO HOO" and "Big Boy Pants" as to why posting pictures with no info or title is something you feel is imperative?

[PitOnTheProwl]

I think this thread needs some pictures

Looks like you just volunteered big breeder LoL

[Stewart_Reptiles]

I feel I stated my case clearly and concisely. Deborah and Pitt on the Prowl do you have a counter point instead of "BOO HOO" and "Big Boy Pants" as to why posting pictures with no info or title is something you feel is imperative?

Whether people do or don't, it does not bother me one bit, but I am not one to have a temper tantrum over it either if it did bother me and tell people to STOP posting if there is no info with it, heck I would love for Kev (NERD) to come here and post his stuffs but I guess you probably would not enjoy it as much

[carbn8]

My first thought was NERD!