I have to say, I am impressed with your post. I am fairly new to breeding, but learned as much as I could both from the breeders, who I might add...I respect very much, and also the snakes themselves. I would love to make a living producing boas and ball pythons, to provide for my family.

My thoughts about what the market needs, correlate directly with yours from your post. The more we educate the people in this business/hobby the more people will also be brought in to it. I think the market will have its trends, as supply and demand comes into play, but when hypos are over produced, albinos may be high...then over production of albinos may drop them a little, but hypos may be back up that year.

Maybe the huge breeders can produce huge quantities of all the morphs in one year....but I don't think so. When we are breeding a certain morph, we don't know what is needed and what is not. Some will get lucky and some will not.

If I produced 20 Albinos and sold them for $1000 - $1200 each, that is alot of money for me and my family. I would be extatic. For some that is just like hitting the lottery. I think the thought of it being more a reality for the small guy, is what makes this hobby/business so much fun.

Just remember, these new people comming in to this hobby/business, are the same people that will be buying your Albinos, sunglows etc...that is good reason to be helping unite everyone.

Our organization will also be a whole lot better because of it too.

Just my 2 cents, Andy Federico

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• For Love or money a few more thoughts......more - Hoppy, Sun Apr 17 16:46:33 2005
• Demand and supply... - H+E Stoeckl, Sun Apr 17 17:24:43 2005
• RE: For Love or money a few more thoughts......more - Jeremy Stone, Sun Apr 17 17:43:44 2005
• Congratulations Jeremy..... - kirby, Sun Apr 17 17:58:32 2005
• Good Luck Jeremy... - kasper22, Sun Apr 17 18:02:17 2005
• RE: For Love or money a few more thoughts......more - Trueredtails, Sun Apr 17 18:16:50 2005
• Funny you mention the lottery.... - giantkeeper, Sun Apr 17 18:45:49 2005
• RE: For Love or money a few more thoughts......more - ChrisGilbert, Sun Apr 17 18:57:13 2005
• THANK YOU! - ChrisGilbert, Sun Apr 17 19:10:25 2005
• Chris, thanks for sharing your story..... - gray, Sun Apr 17 20:18:05 2005
• Thank you for your kind words! n/p - ChrisGilbert, Sun Apr 17 20:40:59 2005
• Awesome story Chris, Pretty impressive you are definitely - robertmcphee, Mon Apr 18 00:28:36 2005
• Thanks! n/p - ChrisGilbert, Mon Apr 18 13:51:56 2005
• Now that is a great new herper story....more - Hoppy, Mon Apr 18 07:23:26 2005
• RE: Now that is a great new herper story....more - ChrisGilbert, Mon Apr 18 13:56:47 2005
• RE: Jeremy.......... - ajfreptiles, Mon Apr 18 00:08:11 2005
• RE: Andy.... - Jeremy Stone, Mon Apr 18 00:39:08 2005
• Here is something else that is not mentioned enough - scottbradley, Sun Apr 17 23:07:49 2005
• RE: Thanks everyone for their Thoughts... - Jeremy Stone, Sun Apr 17 23:50:43 2005
• RE: Absolutely....... - ajfreptiles, Mon Apr 18 01:12:17 2005
• I think it depends on the person........ - boids-n-more, Mon Apr 18 18:42:39 2005