Quote Originally Posted by Kuro_Yamaneko View Post
I'm not trying to make ball python breeding my main source of income, but an opportunity to purchase 41 ball pythons came up, and I'm having a hard time with passing this by. If all goes well, I will have babies next year. I'm just trying to convince my step mother that she will get repaid for the amount she helps me.
She plays in the stock markets, that's what she's all about.
Well unless the person is also giving you all the racks, thermostats, tubs, heating elements, incubators, rat racks, rat breeding colonies, rat food, bedding along with the snakes, you will probably not break even, heck you'll in in the hole a few thousand for a while before you start producing babies. Then you will have to have people lined up to sell your babies to.

Keep in mind only a few shipping companies will let you ship live animals, even then NONE OF THEM offer insurance. Also the market is growing, but so are people doing exactly what your doing.

I don't want to be a downer, but I've seen this happen way too much, people get in over their head and realize it's not a good way to make any money. 95% of people never even break even on their snakes when they thought they could make thousands.