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im thinking about selling my corn snake to a pet shop and i have no idea how much to ask for.i have him in there with 3 females(a snow and 2 anery) and all i ever get is amels and normals,when i breed them.anyways i kept one of the normal babies and bred it to the snow and got 1 normal 3 anery 13 amels. so thats why im thinking about getting rid of him because of what he produces.oops he is a sunglow male with no white at all.4 years old and huge maybe 4 feet long.how much would you ask for. please dont get mad this is not an advertisement.just dont want to get ripped off.thanks

Let me see if I understand this correctly, as your post is a little hard to read...

You have a sunglow male which you would like to sell. You have bred this sunglow male to a snow and two anery females, and gotten only normals and amels. This means that your sunglow is NOT het anery. If either of your anerys produced some amels with him, the one(s) that did is/are het amel (snow). The reason you would like to sell your sunglow is that you have a normal who is the son of the sunglow (and therefore his mother must be one of the anerys), who is double het for snow, and you prefer the variety of normals, amels, and anerys, with emphasis on the morphs rather than the normals in the first clutch he fathered.
And finally, you don't want to feel like you're getting ripped off when you sell your sunglow to a petshop.

Well... most petshops won't pay you anywhere near what the snake is worth. Mostly because if they DID, they couldn't sell it at a high enough markup to make any profit. Expect them to offer you far less than what they'd go for online (online, depending on how NICE of a sunglow, $70-150 would be a decent range for a proven breeder adult)... A good estimate for what a petshop might offer for a low-end corn like an amel would be 1/3 of the low end of a resale price... (they'd offer an even smaller percentage for a high end morph, as those are harder to sell) in other words, you'll probably be offered around $25 or so for your snake. It's up to you whether you decide that's worth enough to take, or whether you'd rather hold on to the sunglow as a backup male.

-Kat
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"You keep WHAT in your freezer?"
"Mice. And rats. If that bothers you, I can call them 'cows' instead."

yea he is a great snake.thats why i think you just changed my idea to sell him.i know your probaly corect on your guese on what they would offer me.thanks