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So while throw a few drinks back with my fellow herping and breeder friends, we came up with this question and I am interested in you guys opinions. So......
If you had to start your breeding projects all over again from scratch and only had $2K budget? What morphs, sex, and ages would you get to get a return investment within 2yrs on that budget?
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Swift, Silent, Deadly

male special

I'd buy 8 adult normal females ($100 each), a proven Enchi male ($600), and a 2010 vanilla male ($200). With $200 left for shipping and breeder rats.

With that you could sell every female baby Enchi or Vanilla baby for $500+ and the boys for $150-250.

Assuming 4 eggs per female (32 total) and 50/50 boys to girls (16 boys 16 girls) and the 50% probability of getting a visual instead of the normal, you get 8 enchi/vanilla girls ($4000) and 8 vanilla/enchi boys ($1600) to generate around $5600 per year if you sell all those babies.

You keep holdbacks from any visuals produced over those numbers and are set for years 3 and beyond.

That is what I'd do with $2000.

Why wait that long, buy a male bee for 550 shipped and pick up 2 pastel females around 1000 grams for 500 each and 3 normals at 100 each. Make killer bees, super pastels, bumble bees, spiders and normals. 2 killer bees first year and your back at square one.
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Brian Hettinger, Owner
Colten Jones, Operations Manager
480 Pythons
480pythons@gmail.com

To be clear, I wasn't waiting. The $5k would come next year.

Heather Wong has a proven enchi male for $700. Snakepeople.com has a 2010 vanilla male that should be getting ready to breed for $200.

With those plus 8 breeding size normals, you would have $3K in profits next year and $5k the following year.

Much better than the bee route, in my opinion, and better odds on hitting the value animals.

I don't breed, but I love thinking of these things!
Assuming the budget is just about the snakes themselves and not the cost of racks or rodents, I would take longer and raise up my snakes myself. I wouldn't make immediate profits, but I'd avoid normals as much as possible.

$550 lesser pastel male, $550 pewter female, $500 bumblebee female, $350 lesser female, and MAYBE $50 normal female.

My teeny little group has a chance at hitting on lots of different stuff in the first breeding.

Bee male
2 female lemon blast

money back time 3 easy
Travis
Lair of Dragons
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LAIR OF DRAGONS

I would get a male Queen Bee and 6-8 big normal females. For every 8 eggs you should get a normal $20, Pastel $50,Spider $200, Lesser $300, Bumblebee $400, pastel lesser $500, lesser Spider $700, Queen bee $1500. total approx $3670.00 per 8 eggs a good mix to sale and trade. almost no normals. Make all your money back on the first clutch.
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Jason Amos

Ball Pythons
5.26
Dogs
1.1 Staffordshire Bull Terriers