Popularity of certain morphs?

[lunasjy]

Well recessives will hold their value longer than codoms/dom morphs. Pied and albino are both recessive, so therefor a little harder to make. Pinstripe, spider, lesser, pastel ETC are all 50/50 when bred to a normal (unless super pastel or super lesser of course). They're a dime a dozen and very easy to make more of. Pied and albino you need at least one copy in each snake. Plus then when you add recessives to codom projects, you up the difficulty in obtaining that combination, so therefor it's a more valuable animal.

To me, it costs the same to feed and house a 1,500 dollar snake as a 100 snake. My first ball python is a pinstripe. I will never breed him because it just doesn't make any sense to put him to my girls. So I went out and bought a four gene animal with pinstripe in it, that allows me to make a variety of combos I would like to make and add morphs I wanted to my collection all in one snake.

Champagnes aren't as popular as pied because champagne really takes over all other morphs. Pied takes them over a lot too, but there are plenty of morphs that alter the look of pieds more drastically than they would champagne. Banana pieds, axanthic pieds, black pastel pieds, pastel pieds, fire pieds, enchi pieds, etc.

And I buy and plan to breed what I like. If I was following what was popular, I'd be changing my stock constantly. Breed what you like and breed for quality and they should sell. I'll be sticking with making as many combos as I can a combo of axanthic firefly. Like pied ax fireflies, leopard ax fireflies, clown ax fireflies. I really love the look of clown, leopard, axanthic, and pied so those are what I'll be centering around with adding other morphs to those.

Sure and I get that, I have pastels, lessers, pinstripes and so on in my collection as well but the first pinstripe ever bought was $20,000.00. Now they are no more then $200. Take the pied who was once a $45,000.00 and is now $450. But I am not talking about price, I am talking about popularity.