I completely disagree.......sorry, I have to jump in here. First of all, I do want want to make it seem like I am just in it for the money. To me, the money has always been a "perk". In fact, this business has been so good to me, that I get to spend most of my day with my snakes, enjoying them to the fullest. I get to talk to breeders, future breeders, and ball enthusiasts all over the country all day long if I please. I get to obtain the rarest, craziest looking morphs out there and not pay a dime for them. You say that a house, a car, etc. is a better investment. All of those items get worn down, and decrease in price (some cars won't, as long as they are new, and some houses my go up, given). But with snakes if you get in when you are truly ready, then there is no reason to complain. When I bought my spider last year for 15k, and watched the price drop to 5k, do you think I complained? No.....because this year I produced 18, and 14 were males. I sold all of them within $500 of market value. I bought/traded for my dream morphs, and I just bought my first house, might I say a damn nice one, where I'm beginning construction of a 20footX30foot facility to hold all the snakes I care about!! And sticking to the smaller priced animals? No wonder you're so upset!! Smaller price means lower demand, which means you have to work harder to make a sale. See what I mean? I understand not everybody can afford the expensive snakes, but I still think it's important to find the right breeder, and have a good investment in the beginning. Sure it's a risk, but so is life!! Note: the spider isn't the only snake I produced, and I'm making lots more stuff this year!! When I produced all these spiders, I'm sure some of you are thinking that I was "just in it for the money". No!! A lot of my money went into new morphs!! How can any of you call me greedy, and call yourselves ball enthusiasts, when I'm getting all the morphs that you guys are dying for!! And you guys are just sitting around to wait for the market to drop? You guys do what you want, judge me how you want to, but I get to see so many eggs hatch, see so much variation in pattern of all the morphs out there that I loved from the beginning, and I get to partake in producing never before seen combo morphs!! And on top of that, I get to make friends with people all over the country, meet up with them at shows, and talk snakes. Can't beat it!! I love my snakes so much, I want to see more of them in my collection....whether by buying/trading, or producing more on my own. How can there be anything wrong with that?

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