Quote Originally Posted by Bogertophis View Post
A couple hundred may sound like a lot, but it doesn't go very far. When breeding snakes, there's no guarantee that you'll break even, much less make money. Many people just lose money. Especially in BPs these days- the market is very saturated, & making more snakes that you love but can't sell & get stuck keeping or giving them away is not a good business model. It's also sad for the snakes, if you care about them, because cheap or free snakes are too often not valued for long by their new owner. Because hey, it wasn't a big investment, so? There's exceptions but that's just "human nature".

As far as I know, that's a good read, but I haven't read it- I've kept some BPs in the past, but they're not my favorite snakes at all- just not my focus. I'd recommend reading more than one of the recent snake books actually. You might not have to buy them all- see if your library can get them for you. It can't hurt to ask. Why not start a thread asking for current recommended reading? (I'm just the wrong one to ask for BP-books.)
Agreed, one of my big goals in getting a new job is to save up a decent amount of "surprise incident" funds... And yeah, I don't want to end up breeding up a bunch of babies that can't get good forever homes. Perhaps it would be better to look into other species, I'm interest in mexican kings as well and I'm not sure how the market for them is, but I know I don't see hoards of them everywhere. Either way though, won't be anytime soon! Lot's of research to do.

And oh man I haven't been to the library is forever that's a great point! I feel a little bad, I loved going to the library as a kid.