Pricing Question (I Promise Ive Checked Kingsnake and Fauna)

[aalomon]

Lol! Shoot! I am extremely sorry, I completely overlooked the pastel yellowbelly het albino portion of your question! Sorry! My initial response was for the yellowbelly het albino only. As to why more for the males? They are able to reach breeding weight/size faster than the females and in turn are able to produce a marketable product (babies!) than what a female is; if you're investing a year or so in a male to get him to breeding size versus 2-3 years for a female before you can recoup your investment, then a male would be more valuable, initially, to breed with than what a female would be, hence the higher asking price. Now for a breeding age female, they would obviously be higher than a male, as they could in turn produce more of a marketable product without having to invest years in feeding/waiting for them to mature.

As to the pastel yellowbellies het albino. I really couldn't say on that one, sorry. I paid $900 for a 2012 female firefly (fire x pastel); she's a double co-dom animal and with yours being double co-dom as well as 100% het for a recessive gene...I would think $950 for a female or $1,000 for a male wouldn't be out of the question and might even be a little low, honestly. It would largely depend on the parents; if it's a browned-out, less-than-stellar pastel, I would price it lower. Kind of like a Chevette is a car but it isn't a Corvette, lol! Both are vehicles but only the one is a muscle car; a pastel can be a pastel but it isn't necessarily the best example of that morph, if you follow my drift there. A top-notch pastel and quality yellowbelly with a nicely contrasted albino contributing the het gene, I'd start at a $1,000 on a male and slightly lower for a female.

By being visual for both morphs, I meant that a 100% het animal won't necessarily display visual indicators of that morph (color, pattern etc.), with certain exceptions. So essentially a buyer would be taking you at your word that the animals you are selling are yellowbellies het for albino or pastel yellowbellies het for albino, since they wouldn't be visual albino yellowbellies or visual albino pastel yellowbellies. Does that make sense at all? Sorry, it makes sense in my head

Thanks for taking the time to answer. I am glad your initial estimate was not referring to the pastel ybs or I might have been a bit disappointed

Actually, both of your ranges were similar to what I was thinking so its good to know that Im not completely pulling prices out of thin air.