When i said i don't care for Ball Pythons, I meant it. So beleive me, I am on everyones side on this.

But there is just to much money and to many new morphs being produced each..month...week....day...hour (lol!). Codoms are very fast to make investment back and all you need is one male codom and a rack of $35.-$50 adult females. Too many people jump on this and so almost all of the herp money money goes to the Ball Python market. herpetoculture has not died. The money people used to spend on cool locality snakes and newer colubrid recessive traits are being INVESTED rather than spent on what people like. Turns out the majority of people LIKE ball python CoDom morphs because they are like little works of art or living jeweles. Which also creates competion to have a certain new morphs (like competing with the Joneses). Look at how people are this way with cars, clothes. Or women must have the latst $4000. purse etc. The BP's just create this sort of must have the new look jeolousy ..AND it MAKES MONEY!


You also have to rememeber that a $1000-$3000. amount colubrid is really peanuts to a Ball python investor. That is not considered serious money to them. Thats called play money. So a $2000. colubrid is not considered expensive when compared to $7000-$35,000 BP's. And that is just the mid range BP's. Then you have the high range BP's.

Pet rocks are IN. Everything else is out and i don't see it changing as long as their are so many new double-triple qudruple codoms being produced. And that means it is not going to end anytime soon.
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