Here is my opinion. I personally love champange ball pythons. I think they are beautiful, Would be a great addition to anyones collection. But I think at their current price the females will lose you a ton of money. To get your money back on a champange youd have to go with a male. You can breed in 6 months. Unless you can find a female that is going to breed in 6 months or less. Which is unlikely to find a female that size. Champanges in my mind will do the same thing all dominant and codominant ball pythons do. They will drop fairly rapidly. This is because they are easy to produce. So they are mass produced quickly. With a male you can breed to pastels and things in 6 months time, and make your money back. But with a female you have to take 2-4 years to raise it. In 2-4 years time the price will drop I think. Spiders did its a dominant trait. When i bought my female spider I paid $1000 for her. In 3 years time spider price dropped by $600. In todays market spiders are $150 snakes as males. The pinstripe is another one. The project is only 10 years old. they were $25,000 in 2001. Now 10 years later they are a $250 snake. I personally think recessives are the best investment snakes. Albinos have been around for 19 years now, and people are still selling them for up to $500. So from an investment standpoint, My opinion is to invest in something like a clown male or female either one. Then get a mate for it thats a dominant or co dominant snake thats het for clown. Like a pastel het for clown, or spider het for clown. But if your set on a champange get a male. Then cross it into as many dominant and co dominant females as you can to get a return on your investment while the iron is still hot. Because I have a feeling the price will drop on them in the time it would take to raise a female. But thats just my opinion.
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Kevin Harrison
Too many pythons and boas to count

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