I don't think this is a ball python phenomenon you're talking about, but happens with any reptile project. I was in your situation years ago, except I was keeping and trying to breed chameleons rather than ball pythons. It was extremely difficult to be successful at what I was tying to do with my reptiles as a full time student. I didn't have the money, or the time, or the stability. I was moving every few months, school to home, I didn't have a penny to my name, and school took most of my time. I know how frustrating it is. You have a small collection, as I did, and you desperately want it to pan out because you've spend your very few hard earned dollars on the project and you really don't want to fail.



I would stick with it if I were you for no other reason than it's going to do you no good to get rid of them now. Give it a few years, hang onto your pythons. All this takes time and patients, and the normal things that happen to collections, bad eaters, dead female chameleons in my case, can set back a project in a small collection YEARS. If you can't afford them and it's weighing on your mind, maybe then I'd say get rid of them, and pick it back up when you're out of school - when you've got cash, time, and stability.



Shea Peterson

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