We really are still at the beginning with lots of rare morphs that are destined to drop in price as production ramps regardless of if anyone wants them to or not. And even IF the number of new imported morphs drops off there will still be tons and tons of rare combos to be made that can then go through price drops as they become more common. With animals that can reproduce geometrically price drops aren't necessarily a bad thing. Good producers will produce enough to outrun the drop and the end result will be more ball python morphs for everyone.

However, it will be interesting to see how the ball python market stabilizes for some of the more common individual morphs. It's always hard to know what the real selling price is but it doesn't seem to me that albinos or pastels have come down much the last few years. Are these morphs getting close to a stabilization price at which large numbers of new breeders will stop ramping up production? It doesn't seem likely that big breeders would be able to hold a set price on these more common morphs but rather that the price really reflects the supply and demand balance of the market. When prices are higher people work harder at producing more of that morph and invest more of their resources (females etc.) into it. As prices came down on albinos and pastels it seems likely that those who could would move on to more profitable projects (more rare morphs and combos).

Will we eventually (after a long long time) reach a time when most morphs and even combos are at a stabilization price and how high will that price be? It's a fair amount of work to produce ball pythons, if we get past the wild frontier days of rare morphs how many and who will be left to do the less glamorous low stakes work?