I'm sorry...I gotta sound off on this one:

Do indigo breeders really want to be compared to bp breeders?!

I HOPE NOT!

Designer bp's are purely INVESTMENT snakes. There are maybe 1-3% of all the people who own them that do it purely out of love who had 1000 bp's before there were ever any morphs. THAT'S IT!

All the new people keeping these are doing so with dollar signs in their eyes! I have many friends who sold all of their awesome hognose, king, and pine collections to get into...gulp...DESIGNER BALL PYTHONS! Well I have one word for these people...SELLOUT! One way to lose me as a friend is to tell me that you've sold half of your collection to make room for your pastel and clown bp's! lol

I know I am not the only one here who feels this way as this is a commonly held perception by colubrid people.

PLEASE...NEVER EVER EVER compare indies to bp's! ever!

I think our prices a couple years ago were fine! $300 for erebennus...$500 for black easterns, $600 for reds.
I would have no problem discounting anything for a friend, and if I ever have something posted that a forum member likes, shoot me an e-mail, identify yourself, and I'll make it happen (as is common practice for me).

Eric, you made some great points in your post.

I DO KNOW what you guys are saying who posted the top few threads, and I'm not bashing you at all. I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, it just comes off badly. As he said, its a contradiction to say "I only breed indies for the pure enjoyment of working with such an intelligent spp" and in the next sentence say "my prices are going way up because demand is so high."

People who work with indigos are a fraternity in my mind. People who didn't mind shelling out a month's pay for an indigo, probably not even being able to afford a pair. For me, it was a female from Dean in '02 when I was making $5.65 an hour in my college lab in which I was only able to get 10-12 hours a week!

Again, Drymarchon keepers are a brotherhood, one that sticks together and does not get into all these spats (isn't that why many of us came to this forum???). Well, in a fraternity, brothers don't take advantage of other brothers.

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Anthony Chodan

www.gradeareptiles.com

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