I guess I am going to chime in again as I am a banker investor and independently wealthy
Now that I have gotten that outta the way... Let me put my .02 in on this argument going on about how disgusting I am because I make money on my snakes.
First I would like to say that I have had a very bad breeding season... It is September and the only thing I have produced was a litter of blood boas, I have nearly a dozen female balls that are either going way late or more realistically not going to produce this year (there is always hope they will). You dont see any of them for sale anywhere..... I in fact despite my bad breeding year have acquired nearly 6k worth of new boas, yes they are to breed but more so because I enjoy them....
That being said if I or anyone else (no I am not really taking any of this personally as it was only unknowingly pointed at people like me) that has had a bad year of breeding they would have gotten out and been done... If it was all about the money I would be done as I didnt produce anything this year and have actually lost a small fortune.....
Again... Last year my extremely picky quarantine situation proved to be my best asset.... I acquired approximately 10 ball pythons last season all worth 1k-1500 bucks a piece and due to poor scheduling on my part all ended up in quarantine together... one of those said animals had something wrong with it... add another 3k worth of vet appointments and meds to try to help the animals in my quarantine room I still lost every animal in there...... Upon this happening all racks, tubs thermostats and anything else that possibly got Cootiefied were burnt..... entire room was bleached from floor to ceiling (yeah a bit excessive it almost caused a divorce in itself) I then intern locked my collection down for a matter of 6-8 months to ensure nothing else was infected..... All in all well you do the math I lost enough to pay off both of the vehicles I own (or the bank owns and I make payments on
I dont carry on in hopes of getting rich (no doubt when I do make a bit of money it is well appreciated but hour for hour probably less than minimum wage of what I put in) I dont do this for the money... it is a passion, yes the set backs last year killed me, and my attention being turned to taking care of the problem in the qt room is the primary cause I may not produce any ball pythons this season, next year I hope to make a good amount of money on my projects.... But at that same time it wouldnt matter if I did........
I hope this sheds some light on how disgusting I am.... And for all of those people that will be upset that my collection got beat up.... I learned... my main collection is safe, and belive me the persons responsible for the sickly animal know who they are..... At the same time I went to great lengths to ensure my main collections stayed safe and believe me when I tell you.... I would never send out an animal like the one I received, my animals are safe, healthy (and a big majority of the females hopefully gravid)
I know what you think you see from standing on the outside of this hobby looking in.... But consider this.... I was told by a very smart man once.... Do something you love and you will never work a day in your life... do I believe that I will one day do this for a living NO, but does the time I spend with my collection make my every day crappy job worth going to every day.... You bet
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