Amen.Originally Posted by rabernet
The snake community has followed this trend: Snake is discovered, price is through the roof. People discover it, drool, it becomes a fad, everyone either starts making them if they're a combination of morphs or people pay a ton for them if they are owned by only a few people. The snakes are reproduced/made rapidly. Within a couple years the price becomes manageable. Shortly after joe-schmo snake owner can afford it the price tanks within a year or so, down to the 1-2k (recessive/super) or the 200-600 range (codom/dom).
So it's neither worth it to breed for the recent fad snake (unless you're like a generation away) nor is it worth it to complain about prices being high, because if you save the prices will drop as you save.
Good reason to work on the snakes not everyone is, like I am with Lesser/Fire.(there are good reasons they arent popular, its because 1. not many people have made them, if anyone has, and because the super of either would override any other morph in there)
If you want a cheap snake then you either make good friends with someone, and work like heck to have good husbandry with a pastel/normal so they see you as a responsible person to unload snakes on (ones you want), or you go to a pet show and get a male normal/pastel.
As for me the lowest I have payed was 60 for my, now sizable/awesome feeder, pastel. I got her when I paid 700 for my terrible eater/tiny fire.
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