Prices fall because there are more choices, it is not a decrease in demand. There is still a lot of demand for the morphs you will produce, on the visual basis: Albinos, Anerys, Hypos, Sunglows, Ghosts, Snows, and Moonglows. Odds are, depending on the number of babies and the resulting stats of the litters, you will probably sell the litters for enough money to regain the expense of your boas that you bought as babies.

The demand for many morphs that are dropping is increasing if you look at the number of people buying. As prices drop, demand goes up. Supply shifts up to keep that demand, and prices find a balancing point in the market.

With the growing number of options available for someone wanting to by a morph, the price comes down because a buyer has more choices. When constrained with fewer choices they have to pay a premium to obtain what they want. As the number of choices increase premiums will still exist for certain options, but old premiums will not last.

Pretend for a moment that the boa market is fixed year to year and only X dollars come in each year. Before X dollars would buy fewer animals, but with more boas available the same X dollars is divided up among many more animals.

I hope I did an adequate job of explaining this.
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