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Has anyone else noticed the price drop on normal females?

I regularly see them +1k grams for $200 now, when a year ago they were $500 to $800.

I believe people are SLOWlY replacing their normal female stock with het./morphs as they become cheaper and more prevelant as a way to (hopefully)increase profits.

The normal female is fading away.

I wish someone would "fade" some over my way for $200 or less. I really need normal females, but cannot find any over 1000 grms unless they are like $400 and above...

Really depends on the time of year - it's all realtive to how far away breeding season is and if that snake can be brought to weight by then - the closer to breeding season - the price will increase on anything that can breed - by the time breeding season gets here - the prices start to drop again - because it's too late (and too cold to ship to most of the country).
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Tosha

"Nihil facimus sed id bene facimus"

10.35.0 Ball Python (Harry and Fluffy and gang)
1.0.0 Angolan Python (Anakin Skywalker)
0.0.1 Green Tree Python (Verdi - yeah I know but my kids love the book)
0.2.0 Feline (Pippen and Pandora)
0.0.1 Desert Tortoise (Pope John Paul aka JP )
2.2.1 Fish (1,2,3,4)
0.0.1 Lizard rescued from feline
0.0.0 frogs rescued from pool skimmer

I really doubt anyone was buying 1,000g snakes for $500 - if they did they were a little nuts, that is way overpriced.

Christy

agree, they should be about $125.00...