I am thinking about going into snake breeding to try and make some extra money and i was wondering what species people thought would make a good investment. I have decent knowledge of keeping reptile (i've had cornsnakes, ball pythons, kingsnakes, chameleons, leopard geckos). I've been looking at womas and some of the honduran milksnake morphs, being that both of those species are relatively small and sell for a decent price. I was just wondering which of those people thought there would be better market for, or if there are any other species that would work well. I hope to eventually get angolan pythons and black-headed pythons, but i dont think i could afford them at the moment. Thanx in advance for any help.
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What snake to breed?
kthulhu
Sep 01, 2005 05:09 PM
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Purplemonkey
Sep 01, 2005 10:09 PM
I've read that Pueblen milksnakes are a good place to start, because they are very easy to breed. I've bred my leopard geckos, and they are pretty easy to breed. You can make 20-30 bucks a baby gecko...and there are tons of resonably priced morphs.
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0.1 Irian Jaya carpet python
0.1 Ball python
0.3 Crested Geckos
2.2.7 Leopard Geckos (male-jungle, hypo tangerine carrot tail. female-normal, albino. babies-leucistic, blizzard, normal)
0.1 Western Hognose snake
1.0 Eastern Milksnake (currently free roaming in my home =/)
1.0 Albino Lavender California Kingsnake
1.1 Bearded Dragons
0.2 Water turtles
1.0 Umbrella Cockatoo (belongs to my mom and I)
Jaykis
Sep 02, 2005 10:56 AM
My opinion? After being involved with reptiles for about 45 years, the last reason I'd use to breed a species was for money. I've got cheap animals, and expensive animals. I try to work with animals that interest me, and not for an investment. There are people spending $20K on an animal and don't know what country it comes from. Start off with something that appeals to you, learn what the animal does, and attempt to breed it. Inexpensive animals are better to make mistakes on than expensive animals. I talked to a guy after leaving Daytona that had 10 black headed python eggs go bad because he didn't know what to do with them and they dried up. There are tons of cool snakes to work with. Pick what you like and go to it.
