"Trace patterns" & "Morph sibling" advertisements

[EmberBall]

When you hatch out Co Dom animals, you get Co Doms and normals. There are no Hets, or special normals....

If you think about it, I would rather buy PH's than normals.

[RoyalGuardian]

If you don't mind me asking, how much was she? Were you willing to pay extra because she is a spider sibling?

Also, if you were shown 20 BPs, and 5 were "morph siblings", the other 15 from normal parents, do you think you could tell which ones were from the morphs?

I paid $30 for her plus $50 shipping from TheVipersHouse. He has more for sale at this moment too! I personally would have paid a little more just because she is literally the most beautiful "normal" I have ever seen. She has pumpkin orange sides and she is really light colored. Now if you asked if I would have paid more for a sibling in general.. no probably not.

[RoyalGuardian]

A normal is a normal, they come with different markings and colors whether or not they are sibling to a morph.

I am aware.

[sg1trogdor]

I wish I could find someone selling some "normal" albino siblings lol. JK I don't think that a snake beig a sibling to a morph has anything to do with its pattern. Maybe crazy patterns are coincidence but I haven't seen a larger percentage of "out of the ordinary" snakes from morph clutches, and trust me I look at alot of snakes. Every weekend is a adventure looking for neew places to go browse snakes and other herps. Just can't get enough of them.

[SUPERBALLS]

I am aware.

so then why did you say spider normals are different then a regular normal

[RoyalGuardian]

so then why did you say spider normals are different then a regular normal

.... <_<.... cause I don't think my spider sibling is normal at all thats why!

[AaronP]

As long as they're being sold at regular normal prices, I don't see what the big deal is.

[waltah!]

I don't see tons of people doing normalXnormal breeding, so i'm assuming that most normals these days are morph siblings. If a normal I was interested in came from the same clutch as say a spider that I was buying I would want to know. Other than that I think it's just to make the ad more appealing to some.

[Muze]

many normal bp's these days are morph siblings anyhow..

Exactly. Hardly anyone breeds 2 Normals these days, so most of the CB normals out there would be morph siblings. & they're still normals.

[wolfy-hound]

As long as the snakes being sold were siblings to a morph, then there is NOTHING wrong with selling them as morph siblings. Usually this also means the breeder took a little extra care picking the normal half of the parents, since you wouldn't waste a morph breeding on a "ugly" normal. (not that I've yet seen a ugly normal, but some ARE more normal than others)
And as far as pricing, the seller can price their snake at ANY price they want to. If a seller has a normal hatchling for sale for $400.oo and someone sees it for sale, and buys it, then at the time of purchase, the seller and the buyer agreed that the price was fair and the deal is therefor fair. Could the buyer pay $10 for a normal at a show? Yes. But they wanted that snake, and did not mind paying $400.00 for it, so it's STILL a fair deal.
If you see a normal for $400.oo, and it says "spider sibling" on it, it's not a scam, since they are stating exactly what the product is, a sibling to a spider, and pricing it according to what the SELLER(or the currant OWNER) wants to recieve in exchange for it. You don't have to buy it, you can go up the street and get one cheaper.
I have a completely normal snake that many think is some sort of morph because she's so pretty with insane blushing.. she's a normal. I wouldn't take a normal price for her AT ALL. If I HAD to put her up for sale, I'd have a really high price, and I would not consider it to be scamming anyone, as long as I say "Normal ball python".
When you own the snake, you put the value on the snake. It might not sell, since no one else might value the snake as much as you do, but it's still your right to put the price you feel the animal is worth on it.