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The way the morphesis for boas and ballpythons are going the prices are starting to equal out to be the same. Over the last 5 years it seems you guys are getting the prices that you want. Do you tell the new owners that their snakes when they become adults will all look the same? Although there are a few that will stay light and unmudied. I guess you guys laugh at the suckers who pay your outrages prices you charge for these, excuse me, but they are all just snakes after all. Thank God for the people with the money to burn. Oh my God, hold on, I got a morphesis, he is cream and she has a line down her back, lets mate them and charge $12,000 for them. I am only having fun because I have been to homes that have shown me their incredible morphesis that they spend so much and I try to tell them its not a car, it doesn't increase in value. But decreases in value because it will look like a $50 snake in 10 years. I know you people who charge big money for your boas are going to say "no, mine are special." Its all about having fun with our boas.

They will get a kick out of that post if they don't pull it
They are used to silly comments
Mike

C'mon dude, you can do better than that! First of all, it's morph, not morphesis. A morph is a different form, morphesis isn't even a word. Second, show me a car that increases in value.....sheesh, what's that all about?

Anyway, I will spend no further time on this. Have a great weekend! Here's pics of my very non-special "morphesis's". Hahahaha!!!

Billy

Your post confused me a litte but your right obviously no one wants anto spend money or finds enjoyment out of any of my high dollar snakes would you please take them off my hands for me.

It seems for the last fifteen years or so no one has spent a dime of high end boas or balls for that matter, on a side not the market seems to get worse each year. For example did you read the posts on both forums how little people attended the hamburg shows these people must be nuts.

LOL!

Give me a break.

Greg Reinert

VERY NICE LOOKING BOA!!! Derek

Thanks invest in the stripe line if you want inexpensive colorful albinos that keep there colr as they age at which point you can make more striped snakes. Hopefully similar to the one above but albino.

I am going to breed her to a stripe hypo het sunglow this coming season imagine what her sunglow babies are going to look like

Greg

That is one sweet afghan that someone's granny made. Makes it hard to see how nice the snake is though...

Thanks I had her out one day and she had such an intense color that my camera decided to pick up. It was not an intentional back drop. Glad you like her I do to.

Greg Reinert

All these "suckers" who pay "outrageous prices" damn well know their boas will muddy up as they age. Its not like the average joe who has no interest in reptiles shows up at a swap and decides he wants a snake, but instead of getting the $75 columbian gets the $1000 super hypo.

Do you think people pay huge amounts of money on a snake to keep it as an adult and stare at it through the cage? Uh no. The high majority of these people spend the money they spend in hopes of producing more boas like the parent.

Anyone whos willing to spend big money on a "morphesis" knows damn well by that "morphesis" whether or not they will muddy up or not.

I personally think the boa world is more exciting then the ball world. Everyone in the ball world is crossing morphs to make new morphs, eventually u run out of morphs. Of course people are crossing morphs in the boa world, but theres alot of polygenic breedings occuring as well, for more color, or less black, for aberencies,

These traits will getter better in the years to come because they are inheritable and so can be layered and built up generation after generation. I can't wait to see what kind of pastels, hypos, pastel albinos, sunglows will be avilable thirty years from now. At this point these types of boas should be truly shining due to selective breeding, whereas most spiders will look just as they do now.

Then you can also intorduce these traits into actual morphs. Theres alot to work with.
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2.3 Bearded Dragons
1.0 Pastel Ball Pythons (NERD Line)
0.0.1 Water Monitors
1.1 Pastel Red Tailed boa Het. for Albino
1.1 Yellow Ackie Monitors
And Counting...

How do you do it? If only we had more "cool" people like you to look up to then maybe one day the hobby would thrive and prosper. Thanks for your encouraging words for all of us losers who do nothing but complain. Keep up the good work.

Cheers

How do you do it? If only we had more "cool" people like you to look up to then maybe one day the hobby would thrive and prosper. Thanks for your encouraging words for all of us losers who do nothing but complain. Keep up the good work.

Cheers