Whats the deal with prices?

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You could breed a Queen Bee with a Lesser Pastel and get a clutch full of normals. Or you could get a clutch full of killer queen bees. Just saying its possible and all depends on the odds. Ball python breeding shouldnt be about the money. sure making your investment back is always nice and being able to fund your breeding projects with the returns youre getting from sales is nice as well, but youre right, if youre trying to make a quick buck, dont choose to breed ball pythons. Its a long and expensive process and you won't see any returns for 3 or 4 years.

To try and answer your question, you need to choose what morphs and outcomes you want to breed wisely. If you are trying to make your return back in the first few years, breeding two recessives to make double hets would not be a good idea at all because a) people would be hesitant to buy double hets from someone who isnt known, b) double hets would be harder to sell than codom or dominant mixed morphs. The only reason you would make double hets is to try and produce a visual form of two combined recessive genes. The longer a process takes for a snake to be made, the more expensive it will be.

I know, I know. I understand the genetics. I guess I'm just complaining because some of the ones I want are too much and I'm jealous, lol. Ive kept snakes for over 10 years now and have 24 ball python morphs with over 10k invested in that time span. I love ball pythons I could care less about making a buck I just wanna make some of the snakes I want without spending 20K for them. Just doing a little complaining. Just think some of the prices are ridiculous. I could get a champion recognized papered show dog for 2,000 and they have a larger community and reputation than ball pythons, for now that is. Now that I think of it their should be a snake show/competition, now theres an idea