Quote Originally Posted by Lucas339 View Post
me too.

and skip if it sounds like i meant that the snake would be subpar as an animal becasue of the price then you misunderstood me. i do see how it would sound like that. to me, if im buying a snake, i want one that is going to look great and be healthy.

Lucas:

I understand where you're coming from. A quality animal is first and foremost a healthy animal that is a good representative of its species.

The aesthetics of the animal can be broken down into two variants - (Mandatory) those essential and/or expected of the species and (Discretionary) those pleasing to the ideals of the prospective owner.

The value of the animal is ideally based on a combination of both. If the going price for a standard healthy woma is $400, then an $800 high-color variant isn't a better animal quality-wise. It's just an animal that someone may be willing to pay a few more bucks for.