why should they budge off their price? to satisfy you? I don't think so.... These breeders have put in years, sometimes decades into building this hobby and now have to compete with those people that think 16 snakes is full production mode and don't care how much they sell an animal for since they have real jobs to pay bills. The problem is that hobby breeders don't do it for a hobby anymore.... These little breeders used to produce a few clutches a year and wholesale their animals off to larger breeders thus protecting the reptile market. Now-a-days these few clutches get put up on classifieds for wholesale prices to the public which causes the market price to drop. And since the small breeder doesn't need the money or the animals he is able to further drop his prices to out-compete with actual breeders. It's a never-ending circle..... The thing about circles is that eventually if you follow them long enough you get dizzy and jump off and that is why you see alot of small breeders getting out and selling off normal females. This is counter productive if you want to make money as it only costs roughly $50 a year to house and feed a bp female, you can make that over quite a bit even producing pastels....
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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles

Various Ball Pythons, boas, dogs, cats, fish, an amel tiger retic female, a couple sulcatas and a few other odds and ends.


a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrier as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!

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