I paid $400 for my GORGEOUS male butter.

Now for the people that spend high dollars on snakes, I'm guessing you plan to breed them. Is the rationale: I will make my money back and more in the next couple seasons from this purchase? If so, how does it usually end up? Do people actually MAKE money, or this hobby just a big money pit I'm getting some normal females for my butter with hopes of breeding and getting some baby butters in my future. I'm just wondering if there really is such a thing as an investment, and when it crosses the line from being "just" a hobby. I just can't imagine spending $20k on a female pied back in the day, who decides to NEVER breed, or doesn't produce good eggs. Or even worse, getting a snake who one day goes off feed and never starts again. Or dies for any other reason. It's hard enough when its a pet you care about, but something completely different when you have big $$$ invested.