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Hey ,

I kept snakes for about 15 years and then stopped when I got busy with family life. I have the time and am starting up again but this time a little bit older I am only keeping the snakes that interested me as a young herper. I always liked pythons and have my favorites they are the Green Tree, Diamond, Olive and White Lipped.

I restarted my collection going the Green Tree route, people have told me once you start down this path you might stay on it, so we will see. What I am curious about is the Olive "market." In the late 90's I could get neonates for $80.00 at the local show and the Barkers were selling pairs for $225.00 shipped during a sale.

Can someone he lived through it tell me how this snakes market recouped like it did, the price isn't a hurdle I am just curious, it's uncommon.

I don't even remember seeing olives 15 years ago. Anything Australian was pretty near impossible to get, including scrubs, white-lipped and GTP, and those because they were also from Indonesia. I had a couple of water pythons, but once again, they were New Guinea. As for prices, same has happened to Timors and others. When someone can get $30K for an odd looking Ball python, anything goes.
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1.1 Blackheaded pythons
1.1 Woma
2.1 Aussie Olives
1.1 Timors
1.1 Bloods
1.1 Balls
2.2 IJ Carpets
1.0 Coastal Carpets
1.2 Macklotts
1.1 Papuan Olives
2.0 Jungle Carpet
0.1 Carpondro
0.1 Jungle/Diamond cross
.1 Brazilian Rainbow boas
0.1 child, CB
0.1 wife, WC