New snakes. Should we wait?

[KSballer]

I know u probably will not take my advice but I wouldn’t even think about breeding for the first few years. The longer u own these the more u learn. And then u see the market is flooded with ball pythons. So why are u breeding? That’s the question. If u say your passionate about snakes I’m going to disagree because the fact that ur ready to breed and u don’t have a clue about what ur doing. If u did know u wouldn’t ask this question and u would know that it’s best to be an experienced keeper before u think about doing the tons of research before thinking about breeding. Do u have a thousand dollars set aside for mishaps, illness, equipment failure? Do u have a vet that really knows snakes? Do u have an incubator or are u thinking that a guy put them in a styrofoam cooler one time and it worked so I’ll do that?

If u can answer all those and be truly prepared then yeah go for it. But playing god with animals when u haven’t even owned one for more than a month is crazy to me

We do have money set aside. We don’t have a vet but we’re one Facebook message away from a recommendation. We don’t have an incubator but we have an old refrigerator we intend to convert. All I’ve been doing since the mention of the word “snake” has been research. I asked a question I haven’t found an answer for.

I have to agree with the above. I don't think you should even be considering breeding yet. You JUST started keeping snakes and want to jump straight into breeding? Why do you NEED to pair them so soon? What are you pairing? What are you hoping to get out of this? Because it sure is coming off, to me, that you're in this for the wrong reason and you just want to pump out babies as fast as you can.

Let the snakes settle down, Pair them next year if you can't wait any longer. Learn more about keeping snakes, about breeding, feel out the market, decide if you would REALLY be contributing something positive to the BP market.

We most likely will wait for the sake of us and the animals. I don’t want to jump into anything too soon and end up with more than we can handle. I don’t want to stress the snakes out and put them at risk. I don’t want to have to build everything I need tomorrow. My wife originally fell in love with ball pythons when she saw an 8 Ball. We just happened to find a Black Pastel Arroyo and a Cinnamon Mojave that are both up to size and ready to go. I don’t know if you’re asking to see if I’m aware of lethal morphs but I’ve looked into those and we’re trying to stay away from those base morphs. We do have a Banana Spider but we may not end up breeding him. This isn’t a money grab. Admittedly, the quick return on investment is attractive but it’s not worth the risk to the animals. The original plan was to find and grow out hatchlings and start producing in a few years so we could learn as we go. Finding these bigger snakes was just a right time right place kind of deal.