Ball pythons fade away ?

[rabernet]

If the big breeders see no money in ball pythons then there going to stop breeding and move to another species. so along as there money in the for the big breeders then were safe.

The big breeders also have the higher end morphs, that are still selling in the thousands.

I see you're in the UK, so your market is still a little different than ours. Here in the States, a normal male sells at shows for $20, females about $30 (babies). These are CBB babies, CH may sell for even less.

Not a single one of the morphs that I have in my collection (lemon pastel, lesser platinum, yellow belly, cinnamon, black pastel, spider, enchi, pinstripe, mojave, albino, het pied, het clown, het hypo) will sell for what I paid for them. I paid almost $1000 for my lemon pastel male in 2006, and that was a deal! Breeders here paid close to $20K for spiders, and are still breeding and selling them today.

Breeders adapt, breeders adjust. Breeders start making new combos that no one else has - that's why they stay in the business.