Your right on about big financial risk involved with getting "first" new herps. When the albino Burms were available they cost be $21,000 for 2 males and one female in Bangkok, Thailand. There was no way to see pics etc as this was in 1981. I just had to take someone from 12,000 miles aways word that he had them and they were healthy. Then there was the minor problem of $21,000 of which I had to pay half up front. I had to take a second mortgage on my house to make that happen as $21,000 was a LOT of money in 1981. You can rest assured I sold them, got paid a $10,000 stud fee on one male while owning half of the progeny of the first years production, bred them and did everything I knew how to recoup my investment. The most important thing to me however was getting my hands on these beautiful snakes. It all worked out well over time but it was a HUGE RISK....thanks
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Tom Crutchfield
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