Believe it or not, I fell into this just by chance. My brother actually got me into snakes in general, he had a few corns. Then I twisted his arm to go to a reptile show, to see what it was all about. We both loved BPs, and I immediately started doing research on different morphs, co-doms and doms, etc. After careful planning, months later we bought our very first snake from another reptile show. She was a yearling spider. I raised her up for a year and a half and now we are hoping her to be our mother of our very first clutch. Basically, we saved our money up, did some research, bought our first female, raised her up, and then bought our male (pinstripe). If you have the patience to raise up a female first (that's the hardest part about breeding BPs), and save up the money, it's not too costly. Plus it doesn't help if you have a partner to split the cost up