Will I lose money breeding ball pythons?

[chago11]

I expect to profit in about 3 years. I'm going straight for a high dollar morph. The Mystic Potion! This Christmas I'm getting my Mojave from BHB and hopefully around tax return time I'll pick up a nice Mystic from someone here or more likely from kingsnake.com/classifieds. Ideally I want a breeding pair of Super Mojave and Super Mystic, that'll get me 100% Mystic Potion babies. If the price of them cuts in half in 5 years I'll still be doing pretty damn good I think. Especially when I have several females to throw other morphs into. Any ideas?

Sorry to tell you but mystic potions are not high dollar combo. I have seen them sell for less than 1400 bucks and if you are starting with the base combos by the time they get up to size and you actually hit on the potion they will probably be a low end combo. In a year they went from $3K to $1500. The ball python market is not that great right now and I hope it turns around. My buddy was offered a male banana for 6k in Daytona this year. I have been breeding for a few years now and I am still in the negative but I enjoy this hobby so I am ok with it.