To be honest the market is so extremely over saturated anymore that anyone just now starting will be pretty much screwed if they ever hope to make money off of it. Not to burst bubbles or anything but unless you have tens of thousands of dollars to invest in a start up project that not many people are working with you will be pouring money into something for the duration of time that you have it. Sadly most of the animals purchased every day end up either dead due to improper care or on craigslist. At one point I made a pretty good living off of just breeding normals and selling them to pet shops but now a normal is 100% pointless to produce intentionally. I wish this was not the case but it is. Almost all single gene animals are about to end up in the same place as normals in a very short time and then double gene and so on. The only thing worth anything at all in this industry for much longer is recessives but even with them they will come down. Take a look at cornsnakes for example an amel is the same price as a normal and as a snow or even a snow motley.... A triple recessive animal is the same price as a normal.... That is where the ball python industry will be heading IF people do not stop mass producing animals and just breeding some random normal because they think it may have something special when they have no real experience in what to look for. Most of the subtle morphs were found by people who have been in this business for a long time and have seen millions and millions of baby ball pythons so they actually know what to look for.

Don't get me wrong I love these animals and I love this industry but unless either less animals are produced or more people start buying them there will be no point in breeding them for very long. Maybe we as a group need to reach out more and build a new client base.

Ok sorry for the rant just had to get all this out.