I understand there are no guarantees. If I have beautiful snakes, I don't really care if I don't make back 100% within 5 years. My point was that I don't want to merely be producing a bunch of $50-300 snakes.

I know that $10k won't get me into the upper levels. I'm also not comfortable spending much more than $2k on a single snake. Ideally, I'll have a few males that have 3-4 different dominant or co-dominant genes and a few females for each male that have 2-3 codom genes. Right now I'm more interested in producing really cool looking snakes. Perhaps after a breeding season or two, I'll look into some recessive genes... although I really like the look of albinos, so I might pick up a male.

Anyway, I was just trying to get opinions on snakes. If you had $10k to spend and wanted a wide variety of non-normal babies in 3 years, what would you buy?