Quote Originally Posted by nixer View Post
i dont know where your looking, but just petco and petsmart have major standing orders every year for pretty much as much as they can get!
your also not going to get 50$ a piece for them either in a wholesale market especially when big orders of ch babies can go for as little as 7$ each unstarted. i have a wholesaler that would gladly take every normal i can produce, but then again your not going to get much more than 10$ each selling to a wholesaler. now to a petstore you could get more, but then your doing the leg work lining it all up
I think you are making my point for me. If you 10$ to 20% dollars a snake hardly makes it worth your time and effort, let alone the time and effort of your female. You are looking at making maybe 150% for the whole clutch. How much does it cost you to feed your female up before and after laying her clutch, plus starting the babies, hatchrite or whatever you use to incubate, electricity to run the incubator. Then all the leg work to broker the deal. At 150$ before you take out expenses I can't think of a solid reason to bread a female even a little too soon unless you are trying to prove her out and even then I would say wait.