I think they will drop to about 400 in about 3-5 years. Obviosly, the top breeders like Bob Clark, Baldalgo, Prehistoric Pets, LLL, High End Herps and NERD perpetuate their own market challenges through the very act of selling their snakes to people who then have the know-how to replicate that same product for themselves and offer it on the market at ever lower prices. However, they shoudln't be complaining, because they are the ones who have hundreds of thousands of dollars to continually purchase newly discovered morphs, fund expeditions in South East Asia to discover new morphs themselves and operate elaborate breeding facilities that deliver increasingly rare morphs because they can afford to power feed their animals and turn out a new generation in virtually two years. I'm sure everyone saw those 6 retics which had the potential for over 80 morphs selling for 140 GRAND! At that price, top breeders are only selling back and forth between each other. Heck, most of these exotic morphs get bought and sold between amateur enthusiasts anyways - have you ever seen a "Yellow Headed Supertiger 100% Het for Albino" in any local pet shop? Nope, only online and at conventions. My point is even though they have lost their control of the supertiger prices and are losing their control of albino prices, they made enough money off each of those morphs when they had the market cornered that they now have the funds to produce new morphs and up the ante on those. And in 10 or 15 years when we can all afford Golden Child pure black retics at 500 a piece, they will have come up with something even more exotic looking than that. The market is only limited to the capacities of genetic mutation inherent in reproduction, which is virtually limitless. Maybe cross glass frog DNA with a snakes to make retics with a transparent epidermis - LOL, wouldn't that disgust our girlfriends!!! THOUGHTS?

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