Thanks for all the info! Really great feedback.

So obviously cost is important but not the most important. I listed a few morphs but honestly I spend at least an hour every night scrolling thru morph market and there are beautiful snakes for $75 as well as $5000. This will strictly be a pet, 100% so all the hets etc are truly irrelevant. It's a looks thing for us. I've already started vetting the breeders that are listed for the show and see lots of info online if you take time to do the due diligence.

There are two buying personalities at play here and they are not necessarily intertwined. The first is the snake lover in me and trust me I am a snake LOVER. I've owner several and enjoyed them all. That was pre marriage and certainly pre-kid. So easily 12+ years since last snake, maybe longer. Wife is not a snake person but she doesn't mind them, but she doesn't share my affinity. I have a verbal agreement with all neighbors on my cul de sac that I'll come get any snake if they call me and don't hit it with a shovel. Have recently rescued THREE from neighbors pool area and they were so thrilled they bought me a new snake hook! Couple really large king snakes and a large eastern rat snake. Great snakes.

So the other buying personality is the dad of cool little 6yr old princess-married-happywifehappylife one and that one says that if we get a BP that's super cool looking but wants to pop or tag us everytime we go to handle it it will not last long in the house. It just won't. We have had rescued pets...10 at one time and one of the cats was a biter lol and it just couldn't stay with a little one in the house. Had to re-home it. The BP will need to be something we can interact with and hopefully not freak my daughter or wife out by getting one that just won't calm down. I know it's a possibility - I've had an albino Burmese in college that was super feisty and I could deal with it but current environment is a little different lol - I'm lower down the domestic totem pole - third to be exact tied with the dog lol!

So so while I am definitely feeling going with a reputable breeder- my hope with the show route was that we'd get to find one that was healthy, decent size (160g ish), established F/T feeder and didn't want to tag everyone that picked it up. I haven't had a snake in a while but I had a Columbia red tail for many years and that thing was the bees knees- so affectionate and docile. I miss it!

Sorry for the novel! Great info on this site. Just trying to find a great pet That's doesn't bite lol

Hard I know.

TNK