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What is your main goal for breeding Ball Pythons?

Is your priority for resale value or a personal goal of reaching a given project.

In other words would you go for the sure money makers or gamble on a never seen/heard project?

Brian A.

I'd go with the long term double and triple hets, produce some new things, be creative and guess what, those are not a gamble but rather a sure way to make money in the long run. You will never sell a double or triple het anything as a small guy until you produce a visual of the (hypothetical albino spider pied) but you will be vastly rewared for it for years and years to come once you do, NOT a gamble....

To produce baby ball pythons! Making money is icing on the cake as far as I'm concerned. I just wanna see little heads poking out of eggs. And I want to see them soon! I have two females who have been copulating, so my fingers are crossed.

I won't lie, I didn't aquire a pastel and hypo just to have pretty pets. I thought they'd make a cool investment as well. I have been adding to the collection pretty much one ball a season, although I have no 04s. So you see I am a very small hobbyist breeder, not looking to make millions.

For me it's really about a personal goal of gaining experience breeding snakes. Someday I will hopefully move on to Angolans and jaguar carpets. Right now, I'm hoping to make enough money to sustain my collection's growing needs and to grow my collection.

well i think that i have more of a sentimental reason as to why i would like to breed ball pythons. my girlfriend has assured me that she does not want any children. so the offs[ring that my ball pythons produce shall be treated very well. of course some shall be sold or ones that i aquire will be sold in order to maintain them. but to me they will be my children.
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Red Raven Reptiles
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Some of my goals are to make enough money to expand my collection, produce my own morph, and the enjoyment (and frustration) that comes from hatching these neat little creatures.
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Jay A. Martin

and I can't afford to buy one, lol. I have a 66% het albino female and am getting a 100% het male to go w/ her. I know I have some odds against me, but it will be fun anyway. You'll hear me cheering from miles away if someday I see yellow underneath a piece of shell.

Traci