Quote Originally Posted by muddoc View Post
Mike,
I would like to take a minute to address a possible issue that I see with your feeding approach. However, first, I would like to congratulate you on becoming self sufficient, as it is always a good feeling.

Now the only problem I see with your current set-up is that you are feeding ASF's solely to your animals. It sounds from your original post that that is all you breed. I also have read that you want to open a pet store. All of these pieces put together, tells me that you will be an exclusive feeder of ASF's. You may want to be careful about feeding ASF's to animals that you intend on selling. Reason being, if the animal gets imprinted on ASF's, and the new owner cannot get ASF's, they may end up with a snake that will not eat. Even though many people on this site, and other die hard hobbyist breeders have ASF's, they are still not that common to the average person.

With all of that said, we do feed ASF's as well in our collection, but they are never offered to an animal that could potentially be put up for sale.

I hope that helped,
Good points MBM.
BUT...just think...if ASF's aren't available in every pet store, but are available in YOUR store Mike....wouldn't that mean you have cornered the market on ASF's in your area?....and the local customers have to be repeat customers to buy their feeders only from You?....just sayin....