Supply and Demand sort of with some return on investment(ROI) thrown in to confuse everyone.

Normally pricing (on just about anything) is set by what people are will pay for it. If people won't pay $10K for a snake then the price comes down $8K...$5K...$1K...$500...etc.

BUT...with something that is rare (or slow to reproduce) the potential buyer can decide to pay a premium for the exclusivity of controlling the price decline. The better you do it the more you make.

Sure you could buy a $25K snake and sell its offspring for 25K each but it would take forever to find someone else willing to "pay the premium" or you could sell them for $10K and sell more but risk more people having the offspring and lowering the price sooner.

Ideally if you aren't hard up to make a quick buck breeding for a few years to get a "stock" of rare snakes will make more sense as you will be able to produce more faster before the babies you sell are able to produce. In effect when you are ready to sell only sell females as they will take 2-3 years from when you sell them to be able to produce where as any males could produce the same year.

Isn't economics fun

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