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What is the most money...

Aaron Nov 05, 2010 12:13 AM

What's the most money you ever paid for a kingsnake and what kind was it? If you can remember the approxiamate year that would be good too.

Myself I paid $650 for a pair(yearling female and hatchling male) of Tarahumara Mtn. Kings(L. p. knoblochi)in about 1995.
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Tony D Nov 05, 2010 10:58 AM

I don't recall the date but it was at the first Daytona show. $1100 for an adult male hypo coastal plains milk and a female wc from Virginia Beach(hey they're lamproteltis)from Gerry Salmon. Another 600 for a het Calvert Co female from Steve Fuller at the same show so it was 1700 for a trio. Second would be a hi end pair of thayeri from Vivid in 2004. Off the top of my head I think that was 600 for the pair but the value was in the male. I've never regretted either purchase and view them the best herp investments I ever made. Value costs plain and simple.
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jeff schofield Nov 05, 2010 11:02 AM

Lets see, about 2001-2 I paid $700 for a albino chain king. I always had a rule that I wouldnt pay more than a weeks pay for a snake. Luckily, prices have come down alot for even the unique stuff.

varanid Nov 05, 2010 12:19 PM

maybe 70 bucks?
now if you want to talk pythons...

part of it is going with hets/poss hets for kingsnakes though rather than visual.
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.
6.6 African House snakes
3.2 reticulated pythons
.1 corn snake
4.2 Florida Kings
1.2 speckled kings
1.2 ball pythons
0.0.1 Argentine boa

jeff schofield Nov 05, 2010 12:40 PM

I will know better to bother to send pics on high end animals. $70?!?!?! WOW, that is CHEEEEEEP, LMAO.

varanid Nov 05, 2010 03:32 PM

>>I will know better to bother to send pics on high end animals. $70?!?!?! WOW, that is CHEEEEEEP, LMAO.

I spent over 1,000 on purple tiger retic *shrug* He should mate next year. It's just never happened with kings. Part of me regrets t hat, part of me doesn't much care; the ones I have are still dang nice animals. I may look into adding 1-2 higher end ones (double or triple homozygous maybe) if the breeding this year goes well.
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.
6.6 African House snakes
3.2 reticulated pythons
.1 corn snake
4.2 Florida Kings
1.2 speckled kings
1.2 ball pythons
0.0.1 Argentine boa

markg Nov 05, 2010 01:08 PM

I bought amel ruthveni when they first hit, and not just one.

Ruthveni are marvelous snakes, I love them dearly, but I must have been out of my mind.

The good news is after that, I never fell prey to the lure of expensive morphs again, and I am happier that way, since this can only be a hobby for me, not a business.
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Mark

Jlassiter Nov 05, 2010 02:06 PM

I recently paid $1500 for a Hypo-E Agalma Female and a het male.
Second on my list was a pair of Striped Ruthveni for $600.....

That reminds me.....I owe my wife some gifts worth at least $2100....lol
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...
www.coastalbendcaptivebreeding.com

CrimsonKing Nov 05, 2010 06:36 PM

..so you're out $4200.
:Mark
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DMong Nov 05, 2010 06:49 PM

Then those certainly ARE the most expensive kings..HAHAA!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

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Jlassiter Nov 05, 2010 07:09 PM

>>..so you're out $4200.
>>:Mark
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>>Surrender Dorothy!
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>>crimsonking.piczo.com/

Yep.....My collection has cost me double......but I owe her right now.....LOL
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...
www.coastalbendcaptivebreeding.com

CrimsonKing Nov 06, 2010 05:46 AM

well the O.P. didn't ask about our queens!
Entirely different set of numbers,huh?

:Mark
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Jeff Schofield Nov 06, 2010 11:42 AM

Reminds me of the Rodney Dangerfield joke.....
"I dont know if the 8 hours of bullsh*t is worth the 8 seconds that really counts!" LMAO

koogie Nov 05, 2010 06:57 PM

John,

Your wife is one lucky gal. Now I just need a husband who would spend over $2k on snakes for me

Jlassiter Nov 05, 2010 07:10 PM

>>John,
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>>Your wife is one lucky gal. Now I just need a husband who would spend over $2k on snakes for me

LOL.....I think she is too.......I'm great......lol............I won't even mention the cost of the Abronia I have and are planning to get.......
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...
www.coastalbendcaptivebreeding.com

DMong Nov 05, 2010 02:10 PM

I have never laid-down any huge bucks on kingsnakes, even though I have had some outstanding kings of different types in the past and present. But back in 1996, I paid a whopping $1,200 bucks for some of the first available anery Hondurans to be offered in the market.

Yes, one male anery hatchling, and a het female hatchling from Brian Barczyk(BHB)for $1,200..LOL!. But hey!, they were extremely uncommon then!..HAHA!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

pyromaniac Nov 05, 2010 10:19 PM

The most money was $75 each for my first four pyros in 2008. Then I got a couple of '09 pyro females for $50 each last year. This year I got a pair of '10 Chiricahua females for $125 the pair, and a '10 generic male pyro for $50. Then I got my last pair of '10 pyros for $25 each; drove to the breeder's house and picked them out in person, so shipping fee added on.

I have paid about the same for my bulls and gophers. I like when I can go to the breeders' place in person as shipping is often a deal breaker.

I want some knoblocki from Jonel Lopez and some Thayeri and some Eastern Indigos...ah, well, my collection may be small but it is satisfactory for now and maybe next year I will see some offspring if all goes well...
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Bob/Chris
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire

Jlassiter Nov 05, 2010 10:58 PM

>>I want some knoblocki from Jonel Lopez and some Thayeri and some Eastern Indigos...ah, well, my collection may be small but it is satisfactory for now and maybe next year I will see some offspring if all goes well...

Uh oh!....Looks like you will be annexing the cabin soon.....LOL
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...
www.coastalbendcaptivebreeding.com

Jeff Schofield Nov 05, 2010 11:14 PM

Being "pictorally challenged" I find myself spending far too much time getting exactly the right shot only to find that the 12 year olds mom wont let him have a snake! I encourage everyone to post their price range(LMAO!!)so the rest of us know who to treat as a customer and who to treat as ....lets just call them "less than" a customer.

foxturtle Nov 06, 2010 12:28 AM

I've spent more in gas money collecting some kingsnakes than I have ever directly paid.

I have paid $125 per snake a few times for breedable adults, and morph juveniles. I'm not above paying more, but I've got simple tastes.

Aaron Nov 08, 2010 08:26 PM

I get the gas thing. If we're going to count gas money then I've got a few alterna in the $700 each range. Since TX is about 1,000 miles away from me there's also hotel and food, plus the fact that every 3 or 4 trips I get skunked and all of my wc alterna have cost well over $1,000 each. But the experience makes it worth it. My "collecting" trips are always about way more than what just what I can take home.
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peters Nov 06, 2010 09:14 PM

Taking inflation into consideration what we paid and sold for back in the 60's was big. I was selling alternas for $250, today's money about $2500--Wow!!!!!
theOLDherper
Pete

Aaron Nov 08, 2010 08:29 PM

Interesting. Would that figure be for wild caught alterna or were there cb available back then? What localities were you hunting back then?
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peters Nov 09, 2010 10:15 AM

First a correction, I should have said the early '70s. I wasn't collecting and I don't believe anyone had CBs yet.
I was getting them from Joe Teska @ the Snake Farm in New Braunsfeld. He in turn was getting them from oilfield workers.
He once mentioned Iran, but I don't know if that was the only location.
We aren't talking big numbers here as if I remember correctly he sent me nine over a four year span. My best customers at that time were the zoos as they all wanted one of the "new" snakes for display.
theOLDherper
Pete

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