BP Breeding: Profitable or no?

[Meltdown Morphs]

It has the 'potential' to be profitable but 9 times out of 10, no, it isn't realistically profitable.
Many of us would be glad to just break even;or even if we did manage have a bit extra on top that could be considered 'profit' it would likely go back towards the snakes in one way or another.
The only people who can actually say breeding ball pythons is 'profitable' are the big breeders on the high end who have access to the morphs that everyone else drools over, or the next cutting edge thing that nobody has and that the demand will be super high for.
If you have the money and resources to get in on a newer project that turns into something big then one can turn profit, but as I said most breeders in the hobby aren't in that position.

I myself have kept ball pythons for about 6 yrs and this is only my second year breeding,and I ended up keeping most of my first clutch. If I was gonna try and turn profit I shoulda done it 3-4 years ago Right now its a hobby where I want to make some cool looking animals.

Theres a ton of expenses you'd have to stack up first before you can count anything as profit. The initial cost of the snakes, caging,cleaning solvents & preventative sprays,heating/electric, food rodents, and this is before you've bred anything. Preping for babies means you'll need a hatchling rack, incubator, more food rodents for the babies, not to mention all your time and effort of routine care and cleaning.
Also a lot of your 'profitability' is up to random chance depending on what genes you use, unless your using genes that will give definite results [ex: albino+albino= albino], and the fact that balls only have 1 clutch a year, so if you crap out on a clutch, you have a whole year of feeding & cleaning to wait to try again