If I had known 3 years ago...

[Snagrio]

I feel like I remember a time period where both boas and corn snakes were the top "in" thing and then they got to be so heavily oversaturated in the market that a huge change happened and people quit breeding them. I think what makes BPs different and why people haven't backed out the way they did with boas and corn snakes has a lot to do with how many morphs are incomplete dominant, therefore have an incredibly fast turnaround time breeding and combining. I can't think of any other species, even outside reptiles, that has so many. This drags so many new people into breeding in a way that just doesn't happen in other species, and we have a flow of new breeders that seems to sustain the market well enough for established breeders to keep breeding in huge numbers. The new breeder burnout is still a serious issue though, and the market has so many animals people simply do not have the reach to get their animals sold. Morph Market alleviated this to a small extent, but it's still a huge problem, and why I'm glad that at least people on this forum are fast to warn new people about. I'm always wondering when it's going to hit that point where it collapses the way of the boas and corns. I really wish people would take it slow and work their way up instead of jump in head first.

The whole thing feels like some kind of pseudo pyramid scheme by now. A bunch of newbies come in to try and get in on the game, often struggling to sell because the market is so extremely flooded and inevitably burning out, while a small subset of breeders at the top are the ones that can afford to make and pass around the latest high-end morphs to keep the whole thing going (really that's the main thing staving off a crash, the fact that more morphs and combos are constantly coming out).

And in the midst of it all is a massive fallout of BPs unable to find homes. Normals are so common now that you can practically get them for free after a little digging. I've heard of some vendors selling them explicitly as feeders for snake-eating species there's that many.