Really, is the market getting that bad?

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Pyramid scheme.

Accept it. Work with it.

BPs are the corn snakes and leopard geckos of the future.

Frankly I don't care, I have my animals and enjoy working with them, and have breeding projects for the sake of personal enrichment. The current state of the market could have easily been foreseen. The future state of the market should be pretty easy to predict as well.

In a hobby where the collectible "items" are easily reproduced, what do you THINK is going to happen? The only thing that stabilizes prices for a short period of time is growth in terms of number of participants.

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I've noticed this too, so would you guys say it is a bad time to invest in snakes in general?

This is a great time to invest in certain species, but success only comes with hard work.

I think that one of the best investments someone can make right now is with boelens pythons. Hard work, experience, and knowledge to unlock the ability to breed them in captivity will bring someone some serious dollars in the not too far off future. However, there are always risks.

It's never a good time to invest in an over-saturated market for a particular species, and I think that ball pythons are approaching that point pretty fast.