question: price to get a male or female BP sterilized? (for female desert or hybrids)

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I had to get one of my corns spayed after she became egg bound after being paired two+ years ago with the previous owner. Here's the write up I did on that: http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...ry-and-spaying

The procedure cost over $1000...

1000 dollars jezus .. going back to the post - about the desert females you could just say that they were sterilized, in that case breeders wouldn't be interested in buying them, however those who want them as pets would still be interested in buying them

sterilizing of hybrids seems unnecessary to me though, aren't they supposed to be sterile anyway?