Just a general question...

How is everyone supposed to know how much the prices fluctuate if the majority of morphs have only been out there for the last 5 years? People spend their entire lives trying to figure out the stock market and never do....so trying to figure out a new market like ball pythons is just hopeless...everything that anyone says is really just guesses and no one knows what will happen... IMO.

Buy snakes that you like and breed snakes that you like. If you look at keeping animals as an investment, you will get very dissappointed and stressed out about falling prices. Alot of people who complain about the falling prices are usually more interested in the money than their snakes....people that never complain about falling prices love ball pythons and see it as an opportunity to get more

ha ha....After saying that.....

I think the future of the ball python market is 'mixing and matching'. You can get a pastel for $700 and a spider for $3500.....combine the two and you have an animal that sells for $15,000+ currently. Even if the price were to drop 50% in the TWO OR THREE years it takes to raise up and breed the pastel and spider, you are still almost doubling your money if you produce one bumblebee. Also, I think double homo. recessives will have the most stable price for the next couple of years because there are not many around and they are not easy to produce as double co/dominants.

Thats just my take on the whole "investment'' idea.

Ha ha....bp 'investment'....more like 'money pit'