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and you wanted to recoup the investment as quickly as possible... Which adults morphs would you purchase???? I was thinking 20 male and 40 female Hypos. Nice and easy morphs to sell quickly. LMK what you think!!

I don't know, thats a lot of hypos to sell.. and there are already so many on the market, might even call it flooded.. Unless you start selling cheaper to the petstore types.

Coming into a lot of money or hypothetical? I'd personally go with real estate investing if I had that much to throw around.
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0.1 Het Albino - "Suzie"
0.1 Poss. Het Albino - "Ami"
0.1 Super Salmon - "CreamSicle"
1.0 DH-Sunglow - "Dwayne"
1.0 TH-Moonglow - "Gargamel"
1.0 Het Albino

Id invest into something id really want to work with as far as snakes go. but i dont know about $250,000 even if i had it .. Koky
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THERES NO BEAUTY LIKE THE BEAUTY OF A TRUE REDTAIL

I think you're going to loss your ?@#! if you are willing to pay that much for 60 adult Hypos.

n/p

Bill,
I wouldn't pay that much for the animals I listed. I would buy other morphs also.

That sounds more like it. You had me worried there for a minute.

Go For It!

Bill

With several locales yet to be imported I think aquireing a few
of them would net a far greater return then anything to date in the morh market.

My $¼ million

M/

>>and you wanted to recoup the investment as quickly as possible... Which adults morphs would you purchase???? I was thinking 20 male and 40 female Hypos. Nice and easy morphs to sell quickly. LMK what you think!!

Buying adult boas does not guarantee you babies any sooner than raising up young ones. I've told people this in the past and seen them invest and come up empty. Furthermore, there is no quick returns in boa breeding. Boas have a way of breaking your heart when there is a pile of bills to be paid.

I would invest more in morphs that are interesting to me. If anything I would buy one of those moonglows and a het moonglow. Those new paradigm or whatevers seem to get everyones pants happy haha. Maybe look into getting one of those. The way it is going now it seems that if a snake doesnt carry 2 or more genes its not that important. I do not mean that as a knock on anyone it just seems everything now are all multiple hets, which I think is cool because it means that we will start getting some really cool stuff genetically. But as far as getting all hypos thats a waste. Throw a couple of motleys in there or some motley morphs and other stuff like that. But thats just me.
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1.1 Motley het butter corns
0.1 Snow corn
0.1 Okeetee corn
1.0 Anery mutt corn
0.1 Stripe Ghost corn
0.1 Amelanistic corn het carmel
2.1 Colombian Redtails
1.0 Hypo Colombian redtail
1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Anery Kenyan sand boa
0.1 Normal Kenyan sand boa

....Have you ever bred Boa Constrictors? If so, good, and congratulations. If not it could be mighty expensive having a quarter million dollars worth of "pet" snakes. I would guess that it would be difficult if not impossible to find 20.40 adult hypos available for sale at any one time. If you have good breeding results with 40 hypo females you would along with everyone else breeding them produce more than there would be demand for and the price would come down. I personally think animals are the wrong thing for anyone to be investing in but if you do invest in them you should follow the smart old rule of investing and diversify.
Jeff

>>and you wanted to recoup the investment as quickly as possible... Which adults morphs would you purchase???? I was thinking 20 male and 40 female Hypos. Nice and easy morphs to sell quickly. LMK what you think!!

n/p

I'd only need about 6,000 for the snakes I want.

As are mine! I figure I'd need 15k for what I want... not very many snakes, just ones wayy out of my league.
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0.1 Het Albino - "Suzie"
0.1 Poss. Het Albino - "Ami"
0.1 Super Salmon - "CreamSicle"
1.0 DH-Sunglow - "Dwayne"
1.0 TH-Moonglow - "Gargamel"
1.0 Het Albino

And id just roll around in a big CA pit naked!

"Thats not a rat.. THATS NOT A RAT!!!!"
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- Mike Fourquet

Cloaca Herpetoculture
www.CloacaHerps.com

If you have $250,000 and want to invest it all in boas,
maybe a trip to the therapist would be a better option,
or some Finance classes....

invest that much in boas is if I had $2million in the bank.

Personally, it doesn't take a lot of cash to build a solid collection, and I would NEVER start with adult boas, that is asking for trouble. If you are serious, start with neonates from the best breeders.

I see a downfall if you try this as you seem to plan. Buying large numbers of adult boas is a bad idea, especially focusing on one or few morphs. Quantity is not the way to go, quality is.

If you have $250k and have nothing else to use it for, I would use $50k MAX on boas. Don't do that right away, buy some baby females that you really like, then next year buy males to pair with them. Put money asside for cages, heating, thermostats; usually about $500 per adult snake (husbandry costs to raise one boa from baby to adult and keep it its entire life). $5 a month per snake to feed it. Find a good vet, I would go through a university or zoo near you, at home I used the exotics vet for the Pittsburgh Zoo. The rest of the money, give it to a charity.

but i do like rainbows-r-us and locolizards thinking. i mean, free shipping, right on guys. kd

And the price is a measly $200,000, that'll leave $50,000 for cages etc. Or I could sell you my cages for another $50,000 and you'll be all set. I'll even pay for shipping since you've used up all your budget.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB, selectively bred from good stock)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
13.26 BRB
11.16 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

lol...

That's 4166.00 per hypo. I'd love to do business with you! *laughs*
There are good investments and bad investments. Investing in boas is a very risky thing to do with your money. It is really not a sound thing to do with ALL your money. You might spend a little of it on boas. If I were you I'd buy a few high end boas, a realistic amount of boas to care for, and take the rest of my money elsewhere to invest. (anywhere else but real estate right now). Have you ever cared for 60 snakes at a time? Do you know how much work that is? How long have you had snakes? Have you ever produced a batch of baby boas?

Making all those hypos would flood the already flooded market for hypos? Do you know what that would do to the price of hypos? You'd make them worthless, and your investment would just be gone and you'd have 60 pet snakes to care for that you couldn't sell. I sure hope if you are coming into money that you seek professional investment counselling, you sure need it bad.

Caden