I guess you didn't really read my post though. Mike Powell, BHB and others used to bring in tens of thousands of ball pythons a year. They now bring in zero.



The largest importers in the world now bring in less than 50% of what they brought in just 3-4 years ago.



You are referring to one wholesaler, the gourmet rodent, who supplies those stores.



When I said the numbers were way down that are coming into the country, I know that to be fact. I have a close friend that just got back from africa and goes there every year for more than the past decade, buying ball pythons and each year the past few years, the demand has dropped, the price in africa has dropped and there is a large volume of animals over there that we are not taking and that nobody is buying when 5-10 years ago every animal for sale was sold.



In the past there were also always a list of buyers from the USA and Europe in Africa tro buy all the cool stuff. Almost none of those buyers go any longer.

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