I hear ya!

Me and some friends were talking about that just the other day.

DMONG made some great points about your post, BTW.



My thoughts are this: During the 90s, this was a time of excitement and newfound wisdom within the herp community. I feel that back then, it was more about the love of the hobby than what it seems now with some, as far as treating it like a fad. Remember price lists? I used to come back from shows with a binder-amount in hand, full of breeder's price lists! haha! Or, receiving them in the mail. Anyways, it was an exciting time, that is for sure!



I bred normal, albino, and het albino cal kings, pueblan milks, sinaloans, and corns in the mid-90s. Had a blast, sold them for what I could get, and then decided to just concentrate on collecting specimens I could not live without, and I have not been happier.



The scene, as a whole, to me, was just not as big as it is now. Some ways good, some ways bad. Now, we have the internet! Everything is a click away. No more years of reading these things called books, about our beloved snakes. The days of checking out herp literature from the library are long gone!



The more people who are encountering the awesomeness of snakes is a great thing!! But now, the reality of it all has hit. More snakes being produced, more consumers years ago buying snakes to breed only, and now, we have such an influx of product ( baby snakes ), that I see snakes for sale all the time on sites that have been there for months and months. Show sales for some have been slow. Breeders I know are not moving as many babies as they used to. All of this, while in ads, I see the general mentality of " buy this pair, and make your money back! ", I have seen so commonplace in ads. Thing is, will you really make your money back??? What does that really consist of? Do people really understand the time it may take?



It is all about supply and demand. Not enough demand, and too many people breeding everything they have. That unto itself is not a bad thing, but the question is, do you really have to breed everything you buy? And then, when they don't sell, the internet makes it all too easy for some to get onto forums and whine about not getting what they think is the fair market value, when they should be thankful enough that they live in a country where they are able to get ANY chunk of change for a snake.



And yep, everything has got to be made into a morph these days. Although I absolutely love morphs, and have quite a few, why so much is it of the focus, rather than ALL of the available color choices available, both normal and morphs? Do normals really bore people THAT much? If so, then you are right, things HAVE changed way too much!



Good thoughts!




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