I was thinking about how the hobby was booming in the mid 90s. At that time it was really about diversity in collections and less morphs colubrids and boids alike.



Everything was commanding respectable prices and people were interested in large diverse collections, many species were viable and in demand.



What the hell happened? It's not like it used to be, do even colubrid breeders have the ball pythons to blame? Or was it simply the hobby hit a fad and it died.



Is this, the way it is now, the way it was for the old school guys through the 70s and 80s and the 90s was the boomtown?



I'm really nostalgic, I guess.

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• How has the hobby changed and the future - FerretTime, Wed Feb 9 10:32:46 2011
• RE: How has the hobby changed and the future - DMong, Wed Feb 9 13:23:10 2011
• ...and not to mention hybrids.......... - JKruse, Thu Feb 10 07:32:30 2011
• RE: ...and not to mention hybrids.......... - DMong, Sun Feb 13 10:37:46 2011
• RE: ...and not to mention hybrids.......... - brianm616, Sun Feb 13 12:16:52 2011
• Stop... I'm laughing myself to death - gerryg, Sun Feb 13 17:49:28 2011
• RE: How has the hobby changed and the future - TBrophy, Wed Feb 9 13:43:12 2011
• 100% agree. - RG, Wed Feb 9 17:29:43 2011
• the future...??? - JYohe, Thu Feb 10 17:46:37 2011
• RE: How has the hobby changed and the future - DISCERN, Wed Feb 9 14:09:06 2011
• RE: How has the hobby changed and the future - RandyWhittington, Thu Feb 10 14:46:01 2011
• RE: How has the hobby changed and the future - DISCERN, Thu Feb 10 18:00:38 2011
• RE: Scale down - markg, Wed Feb 9 15:36:13 2011
• RE: How has the hobby changed and the future - tspuckler, Wed Feb 9 15:59:31 2011
• RE: How has the hobby changed and the future - DISCERN, Wed Feb 9 16:05:05 2011
• RE: How has the hobby changed and the future - DMong, Wed Feb 9 17:08:07 2011
• RE: How has the hobby changed and the future - chuckster, Wed Feb 9 19:29:26 2011
• RE: How has the hobby changed and the future - Tony D, Thu Feb 10 16:24:46 2011
• RE: How has the hobby changed and the future - HondoAberrant, Wed Feb 9 20:40:40 2011
• A new guys veiw on ths - bigtman, Wed Feb 9 23:15:26 2011
• RE: How has the hobby changed and the future - skincity702, Thu Feb 10 02:09:10 2011
• RE: How has the hobby changed and the future - slimlv, Fri Feb 11 22:41:36 2011
• RE: How has the hobby changed and the future - Bigtattoo, Sat Feb 12 03:55:04 2011
• Thats the best story---too funny!!!!! - rodneyj, Sat Feb 12 11:16:19 2011
• RE: How has the hobby changed and the future - DMong, Sat Feb 12 11:24:29 2011
• RE: How has the hobby changed and the future - FerretTime, Thu Feb 10 06:08:20 2011
• RE: How has the hobby changed and the future - Bluerosy, Thu Feb 10 09:33:53 2011
• RE: How has the hobby changed and the future - terryd, Thu Feb 10 10:18:49 2011
• Dell, you summed it up nicely..n/p - kctrader, Thu Feb 10 12:24:01 2011
• RE: How has the hobby changed and the future - kctrader, Thu Feb 10 12:10:39 2011
• DAMN----and I just thought snakes... - rodneyj, Thu Feb 10 20:28:07 2011
• RE: How has the hobby changed and the future - Tony D, Fri Feb 11 07:46:44 2011
• RE: How has the hobby changed and the future - PWalreadytaken, Sun Feb 13 09:37:50 2011