The $30k ball python morph is back!

[Ernie Mccracken]

Lol why didn’t you buy like fifty of them all at once and get like $20k worth of new racks and stuff and just become a professional reptile breeder? 🤣 I hear that’s the way to do it

The ball python boom was fueled by people doing just that - dumping $50k+ of their personal savings into the reptile economy and risking it all on the chance that they'd be able to breed those animals and sell before demand collapsed. Almost all of them are long gone now. Truth be told, it was the mostly the guys at the top who made money.

The bp morph market now is polarized - a small number of mega breeders and 99% of customers who just want a cool looking pet snake for less than a few hundred bucks. I have no idea why anyone would be crazy enough to spend $3k on a BP, no less $30k.