clowns are still worth more than they were several years ago, same with ghosts. I remember when you could get a pair of ghosts for less than a grand, now look at the price. A price drop of only 2k in one year is maintaining better than the established co-doms. If let's say breeder X bought a clown male last year @ $8k along with 5 het females @ $2k. Next year the females are up to size and he gets 3 clutches of 6 eggs. 18 babies and 9 of those are clowns and the price drops further to 2k per snake, how is that not a killer investment? He's also got 4 pairs of hets that he can sell at roughly $500 so that's a return of $20k on a $18k investment, and he still has 5 breedable het females and the male. Now that's breaking even in 2.5yrs if the price plummets on them, more than likely they will be around $3.5-$4k next year so that person actually would probably make a nice profit.

Now if that person put that male clown with a pastel female too, and holds back all the pastels het clown, the following year he/she could produce pastel clowns that will still be selling for really good coin. Those that have problems with the natural drop of prices need to get out of morphs all together. The only time when I have a problem with price dropping is when a breeder intentionally crashes the market to try to squeeze other breeders out.
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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles

Various Ball Pythons:::

1.0 striped vanilla
1.0 spider
1.2 Citrus Ghost and hets
1.2 Albino and hets
2.3 het Pied
0.6 50% poss het pied
1.1 Pastel (male has additional gene going on with him)
a bunch of normal female breeders
a bunch of normal female holdbacks and several rescued normal males

0.1 columbian boa, she's a feeding monster, controls my
over production of rats, lol
0.1 brazilian rainbow boa, another rat eating monster
1.1 corns


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

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