on my mind as well. I agree that our hobby is going berserk right now. I mean, it has been a great year for our morph market. We look forward to many new combinations this year; we've seen the Moonglow, Leucistic, and Paradigm boas all in the past 9 months. Anyway to get to the point, I was on the chameleon classifieds the other day, just looking around, and I thought to myself how nice it must be to just be able to relax with the hobby and enjoy the collection without the worry of big morphs and market value. I remember when I admired White’s tree frogs and Leopard geckos as much as I do boas, long before good investment opportunities popped up in the boa and ball python world and before I even knew what shed cycles were and the average length of gestation. Lately, I have felt like the forum has changed a lot. It just seems like a year or two ago people were more focused with community of the boa forum, rather than chewing people out when there toes are stepped on, or refuting a collection or bloodline to someone who feels they have a better snake, or that its worth the argument. It’s shameful to see friends of mine fall off the “face of the boa forum” because of the way things have been recently.

Maybe I'm just really short on sleep (having only 4 hours in 2 days) because of finals. I'd like to see us "Boa People" center a little better and stop treating our collections like investments and treating them as pets. I find it ridiculous to see a 06 animal that’s breeding size already; I mean my dad and I have our own supply of rats and feed weekly, but have never had an animal reach 4-4.5ft in 9 months. Our future gene pool could decline because of boa kills from overfeeding and losing them after only 5-6 years. I know there are many exciting things going on currently with our market, some huge price drops, and some new things to replace the high dollar stuff; not to mention the color and patterns we are going to see soon enough. I think we need a little reality check sometimes, and I know most of you know that there isn't anything more humbling than keeping, raising, and breeding boas. I'd just hate to lose site of that. Alright, I think its time to get off the soap box now. Thanks for listening, if you could make it all the way through the post. Trey

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