>> But once my overhead is behind me I am lowering my prices in an incredible way and virtually everyone will be able to afford one of the once hard to get high end morphs....

Or put more plainly, your ultimate aim is to produce giant snakes and sell them cheap.

Of course when a new morph costs thousands of dollars, THOSE animals aren’t the ones which are poorly treated. But clutches are large and prices fall rapidly. It’s when Joe Blow who’s never kept a snake in his life sees how inexpensively he can acquire a retic, burm or rock – those are the animals that end up on the scrap heap. It is either extremely naïve or extremely disingenuous for you to say you intend to be the largest breeder of giant snakes on the planet (this while spurning pet shop sales and selling only to the end user) AND that you will take back any and all animals your customers no longer want. At any rate, that guarantee would be a guarantee that you would be opening up your collection to all sorts of diseases and pests carried by the “returned goods.”

To our herpetological society’s adoption program (from which Rob’s facility has gotten some cool critters) an albino Burmese python is just - another Burmese python. Most “high end morphs” of the species we’re talking about face the same future.

-Joan

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