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What's the current market price for a three years old about 3 feet long female blood python?
Thanks!

I would say it depends on the looks and health of the animal...
Good quality animals are always going to cost a little more, but they will always be worth it...
I would pay up to $800-$900 for a nice big healthy CB female, but I have seen animals for much less Around $300...
Hope this helps it is hard to guess without knowing the specifics of the animal.
Thanks
Josh

$800-$900 for a 3' female blood? the thing had better be glowing neon red and banned by the FAA for downing small aircraft.

I bought my first pair of bloods about four years ago. I paid 135 a piece plus shipping. They were around 24-30 inches. These were great animals and very pretty, but never were very red. I have also seen very nice animals in the 200-300 range. I personally and this may only be my opinion, but I would in a heart-beat drop 800 on a very nice female, were talking red as they come... I know if I owned some of the bloods I have seen it would take at least that for me to let it go... And who knows if you breed killer red bloods together some of the offspring may glow...LOL...
I am fairly new to the blood market, I have been doing the boa thing for about 5 years now and love it. I think I have a nice group of animals. I am working with around 70 boas. I have always sat back and watched the blood forum, but never really posted anything. I now am working with a nice group of 1.2 striped borneo, 1.2 Striped Red PH Alb PH Hypo, 0.4 Het T POS and 2.0 T POS. I am very excited about these project and I see a lot of potential in these snakes. And I am sure there are others who would agree. These are beautiful snakes.
I would like to hear some other opinions on this matter... What would you pay?

Thanks Josh

Beautiful snakes indeed, and a very interesting subject Josh. I to would be interested in hearing what some people would pay for a really nice Blood python. I have a few holdbacks that I would not sell for $800, and I have bought a really nice RED adult female for $100.

now is this a normals only question or are morphs and hets included? reason i ask is because the thread starter asked about bloods but then goes on to talk about working with albinos and t pos bloods. so forking over $800 for an albino is understandable but not for a normal.

I am referring to normal Python Brongersmai.

np

If I was looking for a breeding size adult super red captive born female I would be willing to pay between $100-$1000. Depends all on the animal. Breeding wise you will make your money back and in her lifetime she would be priceless... Think long term.
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Tim Rash
www.nocturnal-creations.com

I figured this would happen. When you ask a question like this there is going to be a huge variation... What is a snake worth? That all depends on who is buying it... If I saw the right female I would spend 1000.00 ... Like Tim and Kevin said this is a long term thing for some of us and a nice looking female is pricless. I know there are very few lines of Bloods that are guaranteed to produce "RED" offspring, looking like the parents... VPI is working with a few of these and I believe Kevin is working a line as well. There may be others that people are working on, but if there is I am unaware. As a breeder I am willing to pay more for an animal becuase my goal is to produce amazing looking babies. I completley understand that there are people who think it is crazy to pay that kind of money for a normal female when they see them in the classifieds for much cheaper. The Jungle Carpet Python is very similar. There is a huge price variation. And for the right snake some people are willing to spend a lot more...
Thanks
Josh

you cant always think long term. how much were albino burms going for back in the day? now you can get one for under $150 and sometimes even under $100.

As a breeder I always think long term...
Back in the day the albino burm was 10K...
Today, like you said 150-250
Now lets say tomorrow I decide to breed burms...
I find some guy who wants to sell me a adult female
albino for 2K and this is the best looking albino I have
seen... I know that I can buy a average adult burm at any pet shop for say 500, but I know the health and history of the 2K animal... Would this stop me from buying the one for 2K... In the long run if I invest 2K in this female today and she lays 50 eggs her first season and I sell the offspring for 100 a piece then my investment was worth it... And that is only one season... (Just an example) That is why kevin said some of his animals are priceless, he wouldn't let them go for 800... If you are just looking for a pet then any healthy animal will work for most people... But if you are looking for quality breeders then you will sometimes pay a higher price... This doesn't mean that you can't find nice animals for less money...
This has been an interesting topic... One I don't think everyone can ever agree on...
Josh

>>you cant always think long term. how much were albino burms going for back in the day? now you can get one for under $150 and sometimes even under $100.

But would you really be able to compare to burms? If burms produce more offspring and there's less of a market for them due to their large size, then you could see where the market would quickly get saturated. I don't think that would happen with bloods...

I am not sure how much you were paying for Albino Burms and I don't own them anymore but I was paying $100 a baby or $150 a pair 10 years ago from Ian Gniazdowski of Outback Reptiles here in Va. If they are selling for that much still they held the market very well! So lets say I still had my animals. I paid $150 for one pair breed them 5 times in the last 10 years. Had 30 babies each time thats 150 babies over the time period. If I sold them for $100 each that is $15,000 gross off of my $150 initial investment. Add caging $600, $4,800 for mice/rat/rabbits over ten years(at $40 a month) thats still $9,600 profit for my pair of pets. See think long term that is what is killing the Ball market. Too many people think they are going to make a killing the first breeding and panic when they don't sell everything the first day. Long term over their lifetime they will more than pay for themselves. I am not trying to start a fight I am just showing you how the Albino Burm market did not crash.
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Tim Rash
www.nocturnal-creations.com

I was just using it as an example to try to make a point as to why I think long term... I was just pulling prices out of the air...

Josh

I didn't see your post. I was typing about what happycamper06 wrote. I guess I quit reading after that post.
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Tim Rash
www.nocturnal-creations.com

I agree with everything you wrote. Too many people are getting into breeding that have no business doing so. The ball market is a perfect example of this as I have first hand experience in that market. Person A thinks "I bought this lesser for $8k and I'm going to breed it to 10 normal females and produce 20 lessers. I will be able to sell them for $8k and make a fortune." Now 1 month after they all hatch he hasn't had one person reply to his only method of selling these animals the KS classifieds and he freaks out. "OMG I have to sell them for less." and drops the price to $5k. a week goes by and no buyers so he drops them another $2k and now he's sold out in 2 months and he's complaining because the ball market is falling. So off his $8k investment he made $24k but since the price fell like all co-doms do with any species of snake the market has crashed just because he couldn't buy a new house off his one little snake. We are in the market for the long haul and are getting deversified. I would love to get into blood morphs, retic morphs again (got killed with the tiger morph in the 90's) and oh yeah, burm morphs (ton's of money to be made with them, lol but I love them), true diamond pythons and maybe a boa or two. That's what it takes to make it in this business, you have treat it like a business. Wal-mart would go out of business if they only sold women's outfits but they sell everything under the sun and they are one of the highest netting companies in the world.
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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles

Various Ball Pythons:::

1.0 striped vanilla
1.2 Citrus Ghost and hets
1.2 Albino and hets
2.3 het Pied
1.1 Pastel (male has additional gene going on with him)
a bunch of female holdbacks and several rescue normal males

0.1 columbian boa, she's a feeding monster, controls my
over production of rats, lol
0.1 brazilian rainbow boa, another rat eating monster
1.1 corns

a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrier as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!

There you have it! The dollar value of a top quality snake varies greatly depending on whether you’re investing as a breeder or buying as a keeper. It’s in the best interest of breeders to get the best quality snakes at any reasonable price. They will more than pay for themselves. If you’re not planning on breeding and selling, I wouldn’t pay anything close to $1000 for a normal blood, I would pay about half that for the best of the best. If you’re going to spend 1K and not looking to profit off future breeding, you might as well spend an extra $500 - $1000 and get yourself an albino for a really red red.
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Dennis

Hey,
If the blood were anything like the Marter reds, then, I could understandly see someone easily plopping down that amount of cash for an adult from his line.
-Angel
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