I've done some work with this species this season. Today I traded off the last of my burmese pythons. I originally got into them for the niche market it would have created. You can look at your market in 2 ways:

1. You're one of the few people breeding, you set the prices, people who want them still have to come to you, they can't just order online anymore. If you're the only one around (like I was), than you set the bar.

2. No one importing/exporting = less demand, no one wants them. No serious breeder wants to work with the species anymore. There's no point. No one wants to hold back 95% of a clutch (if they are lucky to sell 5%), and be stuck with them and not be able to get in new morphs/genetics, unless you have infinite space and deep pockets, there's no reason for it.

Sadly, I found the following true with this species: your hets will be worth nothing more than your normal burms. Fact is, every single one of my buyers (except my one today) simply wanted pets. They didn't care about hets, paperwork, anything, as long as it looks pretty. Normal burms, have nearly zero real demand. You can probably vend them off at $50 each locally as pets, maybe sell some to stores, but that's about it. The real decent money comes in (in my opinion) are albinos. People LOVE albino burms, green, granite, laby, normal doesn't matter to them. A big yellow/white snake is exciting, and a lot of people will pick them up as pets. I found a niche here. People wanting a big snake can just buy an albino retic for $300-400, I offered all mine at $200. It's a hard sell, but people still want them, and will still pay the price to have their big pet.

It's a gamble, a gamble I decided to step away from in favor of retics. I know a lot of people feel this way. This is the first season with the ban in effect. We don't fully understand what it will do to the species. Demand might rise again, it might continue to fall who knows. I can say- there's a lot of speculation that this may get repealed and have them removed from the Lacey act.. If this is the case, the people who held onto high end morphs and picked them up cheap off CL and such- might be sitting on a potential gold mine..