yeah, definetely a few points to look at. from what i can tell, the reptile community is not huge in finland, the other breeders coming on with me are bringing in a bunch of balls from the states, i know some are bringing in albino, pieds etc, and as far as i know they will be the first here. In sweden, which is just a boat ride away there is a much bigger reptile community, with plenty of people breeding carpets, jags, dumerils, retics and balls. I think the swedes have a much bigger following as so close to germany (well relatively) and a lot of the morphs seem to originate from there. Could be wrong on that though. Sweden and the german shows hamm and houten would probably be my best chance.



Im finding out much more about importing and exporting with the process now, and i think that our cites has just cleared so that means we should have our snakes on the plane soon.



The worst thing about being this far away from the US, is i would love to do some trades with people in a few years for double hets etc, as i said before yeah any profit is great, but for the starting years, i just want to accumulate as many colours and patterns as possible, and as i have seen from the ball python market, it seems trades are a good way to go. I have thought in the future though, of sending over a larger shipment to the US and getting someone else to distribute them. As i learnt from my exporting experience now, there seems to be no point sending one long snake that far as the shipping alone, you are looking at 580US, will that was shipping and wildlife fees etc from US to here.



Ah many years to think about that though
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Dave



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