If I had known 3 years ago...

[Bogertophis]

When we got our first in 2005 my husband was enthralled with piebalds, at the time they were considerably more expensive and I said no way, give it ten years and I'll get you a nice one, by the time prices came down there were so many morphs and bp's everywhere I'd completely lost interest in them as a species lol.

I actually had a very similar story over a smaller time frame. Before I got mine I was very interested in pieds but they were all just beyond my strict price range (didn't have a proper job back then so income was spotty) so I went with a cheaper banana. And by the time I got regular income again and I could afford more snakes, I wanted to expand to other species instead.

Both of you point to one of the problems with pets that become too "available" & seen everywhere- after a while, no matter how beautiful & appealing they may be, many people crave something "else"- something more unique, something other than what "everyone else has". In fact that's one of the secrets of avoiding "impulse buys" is to force a "cooling off" period; sometimes you find another option, or just find you don't need "one of those" at all. I'm a lover of variety myself- I've always thought BPs are beautiful, but they're just not my thing, & I say that after having had some many years ago. There's a lot more to snakes than just their appearance, & it honestly makes me sad that so many cool snakes are overlooked because BPs are just about the only snakes that people see & hear about.