Quote Originally Posted by rabernet View Post
First - Admin hat on - let's watch the conversation here, several posts are very close to (if not already) infractable Advertising outside of the For Sale/Adoption/Wanted forum.

Admin hat off - thirty two snakes in two years, and attempting breeding just one year in is jumping in with both feet and not looking. I personally think you built up your collection very quickly and had unrealistic expectations of some sort of return when you started to breed after just one year of keeping ball pythons.

My strategy was different. I built my collection slowly, I didn't take shortcuts and buy breedable weight females, I raised my females up from babies. I breed going into my fourth year of keeping ball pythons. Those four years were years that all I did was feed and clean, and solidified my love for spending time with my critters.

My first few seasons of breeding, I took monetary losses each year. But I also expected it. This year is the first year I've actually made money, and I'm excited for this upcoming season and the next level that I'm taking my collection.

So, yes - I think that you DID get into this very fast, with unrealistic expectations. You already know the answer as to what you should do, and you really don't need us to validate that decision.
My apologies didn't mean to seem as though I am trying to advertise here. I came looking for opinions on what to do, not to sell in this thread.

Yes I did acquire quite a bit in two years. However I disagree that my expectations to produce something were unrealistic. I didn't purchase all babies and power feed them. I purchased adults and sub adults and didn't attempt to breed any of them until the second year I had them (this previous season). Why I had such a minimal success rate as far as them taking, I don't know. I did everything I should have done according to about 1000 different sets of directions I found on here and elsewhere on the net.

Either way you are correct, I have come to the conclusion that I really don't love it like I thought I would. I still think its cool so I think I am going to hang on to a couple of the balls, but the rest I will be selling.

Now since you are admin and can probably answer this best, where do I need to post to ask what I should sell the snakes I do have for? I have been scouring kingsnake and fauna to see what things are going for, but I want some opinions as to what people are really paying and what is fair.