Ball Python Pricing for non breeders

[bigbellyboa]

Yeah, hey I literally read these 4 pages to tell you that
on page 1, I strongly strongly feel like you're definitely
an owner of a spotnose! That's a pretty damn amazing
deal considering the pet store here about 3-4 years ago
tried to sell me a normal with a recessive shed stuck on
it as a "Spotnose het Scaleless"......I didn't even know
genetics like I do now, completely ignorant...but when
someone is trying to tell me they have a 50k morph (at
the time) I am not going to believe them. This world....

And with that said, network heavily with herpetologists
and avoid pet stores at all costs; get supplies from them
if you don't use the internet and sell your non-holdback
offspring to them wholesale. You got lucky with a store.

Pertaining to the paid investment for a pet rock/inactive
pet comment, do more research and stay away from this
hobby until you're absolutely sure about it. Listen, I used
to have a lot of crazy ball pythons, a hypo group with my
amazing Super Pastel Huffman het Hypo from Ben Renick
himself, a horde of het Pied combo females ready for nice
stud, my own african dinkers; & my dream of hypo clown.
I had a very nice fire dbl het hypo clown waiting for those
girls..oh man..my shattered dreams, I lost it all in October.

Every single day since then it's nearly all I ever think about.
Being focused on current and new hobbies has helped and
been absolutely essential, and discovering the world of boa
constrictors has a life saver. I have never had another snake
besides a ball python before, so wow, I was surprised in lots
of ways with boas. It's such a lividly refreshing world to be.

The ease of feeding....the lack of stress.......the inquisitive
nature, and bold personality of boas was so refreshing, it's
a bit to take in. You can actually handle them and they aren't
all tight and or pissed off about it, they don't come in nearly
as many paint-jobs as ball pythons do, but the variety is very
nice and you notice a lot of similar genetics at play. I don't
know a lot about boa genetics at all, but I've been obsessed
with ball python genetics for about 5 years now, and WOW
it's like I am falling in love all over again when I was starting
to get bored with the current spread of known ball genes...
there's new stuff often I know, but I'm BROWSING DAILY
soaking it all up, so yeah I can get bored and burnt out fast.

But with boas, it's like an entirely new experience and learning
about them everyday now is such a pleasure, it's why I'm on
BP-net actually, to learn more about all of the boa genetics...

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Okay now with all of this said, I still love ball pythons a ton
and I will always have my hypo clown dinker dreams....but
I just can't pursue that dream until a handful of years now
that I was lividly set back...THE WAY THAT I SEE ROYAL
PYTHONS IS they're literally a pet rock, like everyone wants
to joke about in the reptile community; but I see it in the way
jewelers make a lot of money. They're absolutely beautiful
and breathtaking, but I don't feel like pulling them out and
handling them, letting them lay on me as I watch television,
handling them for love and affection....yeah..your ball python
doesn't want any of that!! Never ever!! Go get a boa if you're
just wanting to spoon and cuddle your pet snake!! Ball pythons
are beautiful solitary creatures that live out hidden nomadic
lives - they camp in rodent dens and termite mounds for weeks
at a time if need be, silently, waiting for something to walk by.
It strikes, it poops, it sheds; it then finally goes to the next den.

This is why the ball python does not mind being kept in a tub,
and why it stays in it's hide mostly - in it's brain it's waiting for
that meal in living bio-trap mode, in my opinion for the record.

TL;DR - ball pythons are stunning pet rocks, literal living gems,
people are frantic and passionate over breeding them for their
colors and patterns - not for their handling and or entertainment
purposes......boa constrictors on the other hand are more like
a dog and want to be handled and want to be out with humans.

Breed the look noodles for looking and the hold noodles for holding IMO