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the most expensive that ive seen is the sriped butter for $425
is there anything more expensive?
because i want to breed corns and was wondering what i would get the most money for hatchlings.
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jake

my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (mazy)

425 bucks for a corn is rediculous. If you in it for money, your in it for the wrong reason.
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**Am I the only one that gets frustrated when I cant find just plain old white paper towels?? I dont want any dorky lookin flowers in my snake or dragon cages! Its the little things in life that bother me....**

1.1 Bearded Dragons - Chong & Cheech
0.1 Anery Motley Corn - Fluffy
0.2 Labradors - Booger, Maggie
0.1 Cat - Hardcore

You dont breed corns to make money. If you break even, you are doing GREAT. Your most expensive morph never stays expensive for long, because corns are so easy to breed. At one time, an amelanistic was $300, and that was back in the 60s when people only made $10,000-$15,000 a year.

You do it for the love of the species.

definitely. corns are not moneymakers..... you want to live fat and rich off breeding snakes, take a look at the ball python. some morphs hover around $5k, but there are a few at $20k and a couple over $100k, and ONE, solid white red/black eye leuc, that is going for $200,000 currently. costs a pretty penny to START a breeding program, but the babies will always sell for insane $$
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1.0 alb. okeetee "Grissom"
1.0 American Pit Bull Terrier "Vanyel"
0.1 Somali "Willow"

Last year, it was opal motleys for $1000 ea. (Butter stripes were also the same price last year.)

This year I've seen a couple really high end morphs for $2000 and one I have vague recollections of being $4000, but next year I bet the price drops considerably.

Basically, the only way to sell corns for thousands of dollars is to be a) the first to produce and sell them, and b) well-known enough that people will seek you out to find out what new cool stuff you've got and will be willign to pay $1000 for a snake from you.

Even when lavender motleys were going for $1000 each from one breeder, I saw one or two others who could only get $600 or so each for them.

It is really difficult to get someone to pay $1000 for a cornsnake because by the time said cornsnake is breeding and producing, the price has dropped considerably. People know that if they're just patient for a couple years, they can get the morph for about 1/3 the price it was first offered at, and that's enough to get most people to wait. Plus, if you're the first to buy at that $1000 price, good luck getting your money back if you need to sell those snakes.

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

There are a few Corns available this year for over 2000 a piece. There are many ways to go about this to potentially make a profit. The price will fall considerably by the time you are producing them but what no one has mentioned yet is Corns produce many eggs and are very capapble of producing 2 clutches per season. I got 40 eggs out of one Corn this season...so let's imagine it was a high end morph costing 4000 bucks for the pair. Even if they were selling for 350 bucks a piece the first year I produced them and I got lucky and had 40 of them, 40 times 350 is a ton of money. Even half of that, 20 snakes sold at 350 bucks...that is still a lot of money. Don't forget the price falling is what many others are waiting for before they can afford a morph they like....and it means it will be easier for you to sell your babies than it was the guy who sold them the first year they were available for big bucks. Breeding Corns is a lot of fun and not much work when you only have a few. There's nothing wrong with making money on them, but sell quality animals and take good care of your breeders. Tom Stevens

>>the most expensive that ive seen is the sriped butter for $425
>>is there anything more expensive?
>>because i want to breed corns and was wondering what i would get the most money for hatchlings.
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>>jake
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Lavender "Striped Hypo" Corn 1000.00
Opal "Striped" Corn 1500.00
Lavender "Striped" Corn 800.00
Lavender Blood Reds 2000.00
Golddust het motley 500.00
Bloodred het hypo lavender 1000.00
Hypo Lavender Blood Red 3000.00
Lavender Motley het Opal 650.00
Lavender Stripe 2000.00
Opal Motleys 1500.00
Opal Stripe 2500.00

The stripe lavenders are priced differently because they are listed at two different sites.
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"resistance is futile"
Jimmy (draybar)

Draybars Snakes

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>>>>the most expensive that ive seen is the sriped butter for $425
>>>>is there anything more expensive?
>>>>because i want to breed corns and was wondering what i would get the most money for hatchlings.
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>>>>jake
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>>Lavender "Striped Hypo" Corn 1000.00
>>Opal "Striped" Corn 1500.00
>>Lavender "Striped" Corn 800.00
>>Lavender Blood Reds 2000.00
>>Golddust het motley 500.00
>>Bloodred het hypo lavender 1000.00
>>Hypo Lavender Blood Red 3000.00
>>Lavender Motley het Opal 650.00
>>Lavender Stripe 2000.00
>>Opal Motleys 1500.00
>>Opal Stripe 2500.00
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>>The stripe lavenders are priced differently because they are listed at two different sites.
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>>Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
>>"resistance is futile"
>>Jimmy (draybar)
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>> Draybars Snakes
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The only kicker is by the time you raise them old enough to breed there is already something else out.Unless your on the cutting edge it's futile..lol...Could buy one hell of a truck with a few clutches of the above...Paul
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Taste like chicken

"the most expensive that ive seen is the sriped butter for $425
is there anything more expensive?
because i want to breed corns and was wondering what i would get the most money for hatchlings."

I dont think anybody is saying that there is isnt money to be made. I'm just saying that if they're in it strictly to make money, they're in it for the wrong reasons. Personally, I dont care if I breed next year, sell all my hatchlings, and still come out in the hole. I can still rest assured that the hatchlings I'll sell will have a purpose that goes beyond inflating my pockets.
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**Am I the only one that gets frustrated when I cant find just plain old white paper towels?? I dont want any dorky lookin flowers in my snake or dragon cages! Its the little things in life that bother me....**

1.1 Bearded Dragons - Chong & Cheech
0.1 Anery Motley Corn - Fluffy
0.2 Labradors - Booger, Maggie
0.1 Cat - Hardcore

the reason i wanted an expensive morph is because i figured i would breed them and sell them, break even and be proud that i helped out the species and helped make that morph more common.

this is off topic but does the number of morphs and thier prices lowering effect the price of normal corns or other cheap morhs?
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jake

my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (mazy)

Nope! The most basic morphs cost you about $30 that includes normals, amels, anerys, snows, stripes, charcoal, ghost, hypo, motley, and okeetee. And I am sure in 3 years we will have about twice as many in the same price range! But $25-$30 is about the lowest I could EVER imagine the price to go. And that is not a bad deal at all!
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1.0 Redtail "Kilo"
1.0 Ball Python "Road Hog"
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches" (Didn't name her!)

I would have to disagree with that, the first snake I got was around $30, the second was $20, and my newest one was $18. The more stock with hets are moved around the cheaper the morphs become. It's a matter of how much lower that breeders will let them drop.
Cheers
Jessie
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Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
Dennis Wholey

*sigh*
What is this purpose that your hatchlings have? They are beautiful animals, granted, but they have no great impact in the world. You breed them because *you* like them, and other people like them enough to buy them from you, not so they can go on to have some 'purpose'.
If you breed animals for the profit without regard for their well being and you have sickly or otherwise inferior animals than noone will buy them and you won't make a profit. You'll defeat yourself. Why would anyone want to start without any interest in the snakes at all? I don't see the reason for this whole alarmed attitude people always have to the idea of wanting to make money.
Cheers
Jessie
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Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
Dennis Wholey

You can make more money on a paper route.I wont even pretend I break even selling hatchlings.Food,aspen,hours cleaning cages.Etc.
I do it because I love reptiles.
I saw Don's butter stripe also.Killer looking.The other place we cant talk about here had some $1000 corns...Paul
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Taste like chicken

why cant we talk about it?
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jake

my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (mazy)

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The "Other" place is the "enemy" aka a competitive site with kingsnake and so the ordinators delete most everything pertaining to the competition. got it?
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1.0 Redtail "Kilo"
1.0 Ball Python "Road Hog"
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches" (Didn't name her!)

I'm going to guess the guy with the golden corn (Blueking, or was it Bluerosy?) will have the most expensive corn morph in a few years when he breeds those hets of his. Not only are they cool looking (the one I've seen is cool looking, anyway), but this is also something completely new. Most other morphs are either selectively bred, or they're combinations of existing morphs -- but that guy has something no one has dealt with as far as I know. Even the ball python guys might raise their eyebrows when they come around.