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What ball morph has the most potential ? Figured this would be good open ended question. Sorry if this has been asked before, but I didnt see it.

Potential for what? Make money? Produce a certain coloration? Grow fastest? Get biggest? Be most docile? Produce the most babies? Preserve wild traits? Preserve genetic diversity?

I think it is equally important to ask yourself what YOU want out of snake keeping. If it is most money in the least amount of time breeding herps is probably not the best choice. There are a lot of keepers jumping into bp breeding all at the same time. There could end up being a real glut of snakes on the market with not enough buyers. Maybe not this year or the next few, but just like a lot of other pets (beardies, colubrids, parrots, geckos, dogs, cats) there will be a time when you can hardly give them away. Not fair to the animals at the least.

Exactly. I learned a long time ago you have to go with what pleases YOU, not everyone else. That's the only way to guarantee you'll put the time & effort into it that's required to excel. And that doesn't just go for snakes, either.

I don't care if there where a 100 of them, they rock!

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I say go with the one that the most people (even non-herpers) find to be the most attractive. The "most attractive" will hold value the longest.

I personally plan on acquiring lavender albinos inside of 4 years and (eventually) the black-eyed leucistic (if it IS co-dominant). I say go with COLOR CONTRAST. (However, the lucy is just SO NICE.)

Eventually, all of these high dollar morphs must make their way into the pet trade (non-breeder customers), and I say that only a handful will dominate this market. In fact, I believe that pricing on many morphs will drop off quickly as the few most popular steal the demand. The exceptional color and contrast of the lavender albinos and crosses with it will be popular, and the brilliant white w/o blemish of the lucy's will draw quite a crown among the general public for some time. I'll be breeding these guys for life, so I am looking for the morphs that will remain marketable for the longest period of time.

BHB pinstripe, and Banana Ball{white smoke}, both are dominant,possible co-dominant and both are extremely rare.Getting a dom/co-dom male early on,is the best possible investment out there.Mark Petros