in theory that is a great idea, however with all the snakes produced in captivity there is still a "need" in the market for the thousands of babies imported each year. Perhaps in the next 10 years there will be a suitable captive base of animals that we won't need to import as many but there will always be a need to some degree. You have to remember, the burm breeders that have 20 breeding females produce alot of babies. The ball breeder that has 20 breeding females only produces the equivalent to maybe 2 female burms. So the person that has a really good sized operation of say 200 female balls, 66% of those breed each year, of those 80% take and produce babies you are looking at only 650ish babies. That is enough to supply the pet market for about 2-3 days I would think at most. A perfect example of this is my local fish store. Their main source of income is fish and a few puppies but they always have a few baby ball pythons. Last year I counted they sold over 100 and that is a small pet store in a small town in south florida. There are 3 other pet stores in the city where I live and those are larger and go through more animals so it would be fair to say that my small city would go through one large breeders production in a year. there is a huge need for ball pythons and we as a community cannot keep up with it, just wait till some of the lower priced morphs get down to the wholesale price of $150, we won't be able to produce enough of those by far.
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Josh Hutto
JKReptiles


2.3 het pied (RDR, alan bosch x 2, BHB x 2)
1.0 Spider Ball python (Ballroom pythons south)
0.1 High Contrast Albino (Gulf Coast)
1.1 het albino (ben siegel, Gulf Coast)
1.2 het citrus ghost(Gulf Coast line)
1.0 citrus ghost (Gulf Coast line)
1.1 graz pastel female
1.6 05 normal bp's
0.6 04 normal bp's
2.5 adult normal bp's (some need breeding to see if norm)
4 various corns
0.1 brazilian rainbow boa (alan bosch)
1.0 american pit bull terrior
1.1 taco dogs (ankle biters)
1.0 grey cat
0.1 bearded dragons

a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrior as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!

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