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i was looking at some really old posts from some people on here that have been members for some time now, and i was just snooping around from posts from 2005. It was saying that albino hets were 900$ a pair!!!! i just got a pair of het albinos for 100$ lol. my how the times have changed huh? So much more new and exclusive morphs have come out since then its unbelievable. i remember like 6 yrs ago i went to a herp show in dallas and met bob clark, i bought my first actual snake tht i paid for with my own money from him, it was a borneo blood python. man since then so much more way better looking snakes have come out its unreal. i was young and i remember some of the prices of the snakes i wanted. i think i remember the spiders being really expensive, and look now like 6 yrs later i have one and i love it! i think its just crazy how time goes by and things change. im just blabbing starting convos! haha aight yall happy 4th again!!!!

I paid $550 for my lemon pastel male...
I've seen bumblebees, super pastels and pewters for the same price.

It irritates me greatly...but not much I can do right?
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"What is man without the beasts?
If all the beasts were gone,
men would die from great loneliness of spirit.
For what happens to the beasts,
soon happens to men.
All things are connected."

-Chief Seattle (Duwamish Tribe)

I paid $950 for my first pastel male YEEEAAARS ago. Makes me kinda sick to my stomach now, seeing them at $50-75!
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BALL PYTHONS
1.0 Mojave
1.0 Cinnamon
1.0 Yellowbelly
1.0 Woma
0.1 Piebald
0.1 VPI Axanthic
0.1 Lesser Platinum
0.1 Orange Ghost
0.1 Black Pastel
0.1 Pinstripe
0.2 Spider
0.2 Pastel
0.7 Normal
OTHER SNAKES
1.0 Albino Boa
0.1 Super Salmon Boa
0.1 Col. Redtail Boa
1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Amel Corn Snake
LIZARD
1.0 Red/Blue Hybrid Tegu - Jackson
MAMMALS
0.1 American Bulldog - Maui Rose
0.1 Shiba Inu - Mako (Starlite's Shark Attack)
1.0 American Pit Bull Terrier - Magnum TT, CGC, TDI
1.0 Dapple Dachshund - Caiman
1.0 White DSH Cat - Lucaya (Luke)
1.0 Cinnamon Pinto Hedgehog - Niles
0.1 Albino Skunk - Lakota (aka Stinker)

times change very fast,, as does prices....wait...pair of het amels..???..sold here at ...wait....$35.....wow...you lost money in the time it took to type that.....LOL....really!....have fun....
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..........98 outside today.....think I'll stay next to the heater in the snake room....a balmy 83......aaaahhhh....

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Yeah, I thought about getting a pair of $100 hets too. Then I realized I would have to feed them $300-$400 worth of rats and wait 3 years to get them up to breeding size and then, if I'm lucky, I would have a 1:4 chance of producing a baby albino or two that would then need more rats and another three years before I could breed it back to it's het parent or albino sib to produce inbred albinos which I'm sure people will be lining up to buy in 2016!

Just kidding...I wish I had coughed up the $900 in 2005!!

John

"You know it's sad but truuueee!" - James Hetfield

haha well when my females are ready which is gunna be like 3 years, my males might be ready in another yr. i have 3 females waiting right now for the male. but yea hets take along time and it doesnt really seem worth it, but idc i want to do it for the fun in being able to say hey i bred the snakes and i hatched this little guy. that its self is enough joy for me since ive never done it before i just want to feel what it feels like, i know to some people hatching some snakes is an everyday thing. but ive never done it before and i think it would be a pretty good feeling!!!

I agree, the only real reason to do this stuff is for the fun, enjoyment, and excitement of hatching out babies.
I must look in my incubators 30 times a day. (It's a good thing they have windows) The anticipation of waiting to see if you hit the odds is unbearable.
Good luck with your hets!

John