Nearing the end of guaranteed genetics. What will it mean to you?

[rabernet]

yeah it scary to think at time you goingo t have to give away the base stuff like butters/lessers and othe base guys and I am still struggling to produce the basics, it almost enought to make me want ot get out casue I never be able to sell,trade my base snakes out and i going to get overrun with the normals and othe snakes in rescues. ( almost there due to the size of my last rescue lot.)

I almost wish that there was a longer time between breeding for bps just to keep the market from being flooded.

There's always going to be demand for the base snakes. There are always going to be new keepers coming in to the hobby who want more than just a normal. And I suspect, as more breeders are moving into combo's, the single gene animals will be lower supply, higher demand - thus pushing some of the prices back up - which is a good thing.

Even with pastels, one of the first mutations to really get into the affordable pricing for the pet owner (not the hobbiest breeder), can still demand a respectable price for the nicer examples. I sold my lemon pastel females THIS SEASON for $250 each before they even had their first shed, and the person who bought them from me told me that they would have willingly paid up to $500 each if that's what I had asked. Why? Because he's been shopping for three to four years now for pastel females that he felt were the quality he was looking for.

Your thoughts?

The "players" who can even afford to have to "worry" about guaranteed genetics for these multi-gene animals are very few. I think it's far too pre-mature to even speculate how this will affect the future of this hobby. We haven't even seen all the possible 2 and 3 gene combos that can be made with 60 identified base mutations. And we probably won't ever see them all in our lifetime.

The future is very bright for ball pythons and their combos. I don't see the sky falling any time soon.