The ball python market in Canada (and I suspect in the U.S) has reached saturation point. It's simple supply and demand. The demand is still pretty high from what I can tell. But the supply is even higher. The Crbe had Mabye 100+ vendors. Of those probably 85 were selling only balls. And the remaining tables only a handful didnt have at least a few. I was there to sell cages and racks and even I had a few of a friend of mine for sale. Even with the super low prices people are talking about they Wern't selling. I know a few of the big breeders that didnt sell anything, or sold very little. IMHO the glory days of the ball market, at least from a business standpoint are over. People have been talking about it for years. Everyone that buys from you in 18 months becomes your compitition. And there simply isn't enough new people coming in to the hobby to continue with that forever. If you love regius then keep them. If your hoping to make a living off breeding them your probably out of luck. I've personally seen at least 3 breeders dump good sized collections here in ontario in the last month. The writing is on the wall I'm afraid. I still think the market will recover to some degree. Give it maybe 5 years and lots of the people now breeding will have gotten tired of warehousing a scores of babies that won't sell at any price and will have gotten out. But until then it's going to be hard going for anyone wanting to breed and sell balls in Ontario at least. At least that's how I see it.