The thing about co-doms you have to understand is that you have to get in early at the highest price the morph is at. The more you have to pay the better, because the price of babies DOES come down fast - much faster than simple recessives. A lot of people bought spiders at $25,000. The next year you could pick up a male for $15,000. Those people who bought at $25,000, and sold babies for $15,000 made a killing. This year males are going for $7500 (more or less). Next year - who knows. But it is NOT 3 years until breeding, but more like 1 year because male ball pythons can reproduce at a very early age, and with co-dom's 50% of the babies are that trait right off as you've stated ( I know you were thinking females but you need to think males in co-doms). That's why the price falls so rapidly; shere numbers of them out there. Simple economics. But the smart people who went ahead and spent the $25,000 & bred their animals the next year made $100,000.00 easily. The people who waited a year & spent $15,000 and bred them the next year would have struggled to make half that (those are very rough figures for all of you anal folks out there who usually miss the point anyway). At only $10,000 more for the initial investment, to make a cool $50,000, it would be foolish not to invest when the market is at it's highest. It's hard to understand for some people, especially the ones who are always complaining about the prices of Ball python morphs, but the more you have to spend on a morph, the better off you are because the more money you stand to make, by far. The people who constantly sit there and complain are not the ones who make the money in this world anyway so don't listen to them. To them the sky is always falling. Is that not the point anyway, making money ? It's a high stakes game & it costs money to play, but the rewards are definatly there for the confident. But you shouldn't play this game unless you have enough experience to succeed. But you can make serious money even if you get in low, like the Pastels you mentioned, because of supers. Even with out a super, what's wrong with selling $1000 snakes ? With Pastels, you can invest $3,000 (1.1) and make $10,000 in 3 years by producing a super. Where else could you do that ?

Paul Edwards

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