Okay, I don't breed indigos or cribos (at least not for a few more years), so I can't really speak to the difficulty in breeding them or really even the level of cost and time involved in keeping a quantity of adults, but here's my thoughts. Personally, I think the people in the ball python market are completely off their rockers in the amount of money they charge or pay for a snake. After all, at the end of the day, a 100K ball python is just that, a snake, and a ball python at that(no offense to anyone out there that loves ball pythons, I have one myself). However, I don't think what the high end morph market is doing should be the yardstick for how to measure increases in Dry prices, and here's why. It seems to me that the appeal in having incredibly expensive snakes (at least for a lot of people) is greatly economic, and I don't know that that is really the direction that the reptile hobby in general should go. In my experience, people approach "investment" animals differently than they do an animal that they own simply because they enjoy it. And the higher the prices on indigos rise, the more people will tend to approach them that way. I'm not saying that people shouldn't aim to breed them and sell them, or that high prices on indigos are not justified by their coolness factor. However, as prices rise, your consumer base is going to change considerably, and that's something you should keep in mind. Inflation of indigo prices combined with the rising prices of interstate commerce permits is going to put them out of reach of some people who might truly love them. Again, I'm not an expert, and I can't say what a "fair" price for an indigo is, but these are just thoughts to keep in mind when contemplating future price trends.

Robert

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