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Three 50% Poss. Het. Ghost Babies. Worth it?
Hello everybody, Im working on getting some good Balls together so I can go strong my first year of breeding. As of now, I have A male spider, and two normal Females.
I found a guy on craigslist, whose trying to sell 2.1 50% Poss. Het Ghost Ball Python Hatchlings. The boys have shed but not the girl, and none have eaten yet. He's selling them for 20 dollers each, or 50 for all three.
I feel like I have a pretty decent chance of them having the ghost gene, and worst case scenario, I could always use the female to make more codoms, but Im trying to decide if theyre worth trying to prove out. I can spend $50, and If proved out each snake would double in value. And with a few years I could wind up with some consistantly producing ghosts, and possibly ghost spiders. Or this could completely flop, I have bad luck and none of the three prove out, landing me with a ton of normals that would be difficult to move, and greatly disappointing me because I sank years into a maybe. I would of course have other projects going to too, the het ghosts becoming somewhat of a background experiment. But my first year Im probably going to be scrambling to get an incubator the size I would need in time, and Im afraid to not be picky enough with the clutches I do produce.
What do you guys think? Possibly a good investment? Too flimsy to be worth my time?
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Not a good investment
1# It's from craiglist really the last place I would buy hets from or possible hets.
2# It's a reverse trio which mean you are really waisting money and time on an extra male when you need either 1.1 or 1.2
3# You can get a pair of 100% het hypo for $150 it will save you time and heartache especially if your trio does not prove.
Buying 2.1 means you need to raise them up count 2 to 3 years for the female, than you breed them, if you do not hatch any visual it might mean a few things
1# Bad odds try again next year
2# One or both are normals try again next year as well
It could take you YEARS 3 to 5 years min to hatch a visual if you even hatch one when hypo males are only $150 and female about $250 so ask yourself the question is all that time raising up, feeding and breeding animals really worth it?
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if it were 1.2 maybe but 2.1 with a 50% chance NO.
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Re: Three 50% Poss. Het. Ghost Babies. Worth it?
Yeah.. That sounds like the worst idea ive had all year XDD. I swear trying to be frugal puts on insane blinders. Might as well just buy a pair outright. Id get the genetic guarantee, and wouldnt have to deal with any health problems they may have to boot.(I havent gotten a snake of craigslist that was on deaths door, or infected with something @_@)
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I don't buy poss. hets, ever.
So ya, bad investment
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If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
In this case, it doesn't even sound good.
NEXT!
- Danielle
Snakes are just tails with faces....
1.0 Pied BP, 1.0 Crested Gecko, 1.0 RAPTOR Leopard gecko, , 0.1 Desert Pin BP, 1.0 Albino BP, 0.1 Leachie Gecko
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Re: Three 50% Poss. Het. Ghost Babies. Worth it?
 Originally Posted by SquamishSerpents
I don't buy poss. hets, ever.
So ya, bad investment 
I wont even touch that
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Elaborate please?
I suppose what I meant to say is I wouldn't PURPOSELY buy a poss. het of a morph that I was hoping to produce in the future. It's not that much more to buy a 100% het. so why not just drop the extra cash and get what you want.
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Re: Three 50% Poss. Het. Ghost Babies. Worth it?
 Originally Posted by SquamishSerpents
Elaborate please?
I suppose what I meant to say is I wouldn't PURPOSELY buy a poss. het of a morph that I was hoping to produce in the future. It's not that much more to buy a 100% het. so why not just drop the extra cash and get what you want.
Thats better. There are plenty of "possible" hets out there for next to nothing. I just sold a pair of possible albinos, I made VERY clear that they are possible and were from a het to het pairing.
There are a bunch of "little guys" up and coming that are gambling on het to het pairings that will produce a ton of possibles.
Its more of how much do you feel you can trust the person you are purchasing from? I could sell you a pair of 100% het ????? on a claim and you still cant prove they are or arnt for 2 to 3 years
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I try and avoid poss hets too. If its a bonus that fits into my plans, then sure knowing that in the back of my head its a possibility is cool, but i wouldnt go out of my way killing myself to try and prove it out haha. Most 100% hets are cheap enough so i would just spend the extra money to buy one of them.
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