I am uncertain why you are saying I assume you are the one to blame for this? I never said anyones name. I am friends with a few big name breeders myself, and I am aware of people in your shoes and how this is affecting you as well. As I said I am sorry to hear about this. Not only for myself....but for everyone including you. I only own 8 Hondurans, many of them are not even breeding size. I have around 60 snakes in my collection. I have been keeping snakes for 30 years but have only been breeding for 5. I myself have had to lower my prices along with everyone else, and have heard the same from other friends. What is the most annoying part of all this is every other time I have some intereted potential customer to buy a snake they throw it in my face how someone on the classifieds just lowered the price again. So though breeders are talking about this problem, it seems no agreement on a new market price has been set, and it's a free for all and get rid of em as fast as you can before you get stuck with them type of thing. This is the real problem. If many breeders saw this coming and many speak to each other about things like this something of a more reasonable price may have been salvaged instead of this situation. Too late now, and as I saw it...and I am sure many others did too.....it seemed like these snakes were rare investment animals one minute and just any other snake the next. Just two years ago there was supposedly not very many Snows in existance, last year still not all that many. But this year what happened? They hit the magic number and passed the stage of rare and are now common? It does not make much sense. Talking about markets crashing....and also about patience....can you imagine how many people will buy into Ball Pythons and fail miserably? Or end up barely breaking even? If those people are not soured on breeding snakes....it is likely to think they just may come back to colubrids. Who is to say they may not even come back and get into Hondurans? We can never know, but for all our sakes I hope you and I and everyone into Hondurans gets what they want out of all this. Tom Stevens

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