Quote Originally Posted by Mike Cavanaugh View Post
prices dropped to like 20 to 50 dollars each... even for the morphs.

The idea that balls will end up priced like cornsnakes is in my opinion stupid.
Why do I say this? its simple. because BP babies cost a lot more to produce then corn snake babies.
True, if you work things on a per baby cost.

One of the reasons corns dropped is because you can get 20 to 25 eggs out of a single female in a single clutch and many will double clutch. 40 babies is a lot of mouths to feed, cups to change, ads to place. If you've only got 10 females, that's a buttload of babies which you are not alone in producing.

I'm thinking that ball python production numbers will simply not be comparable once you realize just how many eggs a corn can produce.

Of course, those rotten corn breeders probably freeze male morphs to keep prices high for as long as possible......

I used to be irritated about this with CalKings. Now I just produce what I want and sell it for what I want. Sometimes I drop a price a bit if I have a bunch of a particular morph or someone is buying multiple animals but I am generally on the high end of he spectrum. Sometimes I have animals until the following spring, but they eventually sell for what I want.