I paid $5,000 for a het albino male almost 10 years ago. I also paid $6,500 for my original lemon pastel male many moons ago. I am thrilled with how prices have held up over the last ten years and the future looks just as good. There's a lot of new money coming into this hobby each year and I am very excited about what’s ahead!

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and i have read several time about breeders waiting to see what 'this years prices' will be? how does each years price get determined? Do you just stick with the price from the previous year then lower your price if none are selling?


I factor in a bunch of things when I set my prices ... I start with the same price the animals were last year ... then I wait to see how many I get of each morph ... this is a big thing for me, because I want to sell animals and I want to hold animals back ... so if I have a high demand for say female albinos and I only produce 2, then my price on them will be a little higher than market. That way, if one sells, great! I make a few bucks and maybe trade for a replacement with another breeder. On the other hand, if the higher than market price scares off customers, then I keep them for myself and that's great too.

Things like how the "big guys" are pricing their animals, new combos that people are going crazy over, ads on the web by idiots taking deposits on animals that they haven't produced yet, and the numbers of a given morph sold the previous year also play big time into what prices are going to be.

Hope this helps.

-adam