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why do blood red corns cost so much?

wow............

.......what is "so high" around your house?......

you don't see that many around here actually.......

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Hello Jeffrey!

Well, I kinda short cut that response. You don't see many Bloodreds (or variations) around here either, YET! I agree with the other responses as well on the high cost.

In my area you don't see them available just yet but I'm working with them, Ronda and Marc of NW Herpetoculture, Doug and Jeff of The Lazy Slither Ranch and I'm sure there are others as well.

Time will tell, we don't see a hugh demand around here for corns much anway!

Clint Boyer

As a bit of history, the blood red's as a natural occuring morph were one of the hardest animals to raise and get to thrive in captivity. For some reason for years blood red hatchlings were hard to get to feed without going thru all the convolutions that were required with some of the mexicana group. For years folks like Don S.( South Mountain ), Kathy love and Rich and a few others have selectively bred them till they now are normally not a problem.

But due to the work that goes into producing feeding, healthy and viable hatchlings in this morph, few folks have been committed enough to produced them in any quanity. I for one don't mind the slightly higer prices they command as I completely realize from past experience the problems of the past.

Blood reds are a morph that has so far in the hobby been underutilized, the new morphs that will come out of them in the future now that the feeding problems have been dealt with will be outstanding and beautiful.

John Cherry
Cherryville Farms

Cherryville Farms

i am from northest ohio and i have yet to see any one around here that has them. so i checking out the classifeds and found them for 40 a piece that the lowest i have ever seen them for so i finally got a pair,they should be here on aug 6 i cant wait . so thanks for the history lesson on them. and all the other reponses to my post

I am from NW PA so I know what you are talking about. No one around here breeds them. I am hoping to receive my little girl from Don in a few weeks. And hopefully I will be able to get a mate for her soon. We need some bloodreds around here.
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SpardaWolf
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I agree with Mr. Cherry. I have been debating on getting a bloodred after all of the horror stories I heard from breeders around here. After talking with Don S., I have decided to order one from him this year. I plan on using his excellent breeding and bringing these gorgeous snakes to my area. And actually $75 for such a beautiful and somewhat rare snake is really not all that much money to spend.
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SpardaWolf
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I agree I don't thinks $75-$100 is a bad price for a rare snake that has potiential for producing new morphs. A hypo blood red is $200, so the current prices for normal blood reds is not bad.