Quote Originally Posted by Freakie_frog View Post
I have noticed a growing trend in the last two or three years of keepers that get their first Ball python. After as little as a few weeks or even a few months of keeping these wonderful animals this new keeper feels drawn to breeding. I think this has to do small in part to how easy many breeders make things look. The other factor is that there are so many morphs out and many of them so expensive that most people think the only way to aquire them is to breed for them. For many of the masses it is true.

I do how ever worry that many new keepers rush to the breeding side of things. Without truly understanding what they are getting themselves into. Where have the keepers gone that simply enjoy them and have no drive to breed.Where have the keepers gone that can say I have a Ball python and I really don't want to breed.

You see it all to often where people get the urge to breed pick up a couple of projects and then their excitement fizzles cause they come to understand that there is work involved in breeding.

So with all that said I want to hear stories about people a their Ball pythons that have no intention of breeding.

So please it can even be a morph but Only people that do not want to breed.
I agree with you to the max! but what makes a new ball python owner unfit to breed? If they do their research and know their stuff why shouldnt they be allowed? I mean if they are in it for the money then they wont succeed mainly because they havent gained the friends most of us "usuals" have in this industry. You have to take in to consideration that all these new people are keeping this industry alive. You think adam, Brian, or ralph have customers buying 20 pastels? No each customer buys one maybe 2. If we didnt have newbies who would buy the rest?