OK here is why I say I don't expect to see this sort of thing happen this season. I have met far more people who own blackheads that have never produced with them than I have people who can get it done. I have made sales to people who are sort of "off the grid" so to speak who never post anywhere, don't go to shows, and some who only want "pets" or single snakes.

In doing shows where I have them on my table I get lots of people that tell me they have them but can't produce. One guy bought his pair at $15,000 years ago and has had slugs, fertile eggs go bad, or eggs go full term and die every time he tried to produce them. I met another guy that talk so much crap about the numbers of adults and different looks he had that I had to call BS on him and told him to show me some pics and he showed up the next day with an album full of everything he said he had...

Point is, yes there are tons and TONS and TONS of adults out there and from all of them there have been very few babies produced. I have no doubt gotten lucky the last two year but then again both of my clutches are from different females. This year is looking doubtful in my mind with the one female I have ready to go.

Also the bigger the female the less likely she can go year after year or even given a year off. If you do get her back to size you will likely see issues with her health due to the feed schedule you had to have her on to put all the weight back on. My female that I would like to try this year is about 7 feet long and she has good body weight but she really just got back to "good" with in the last month or two. Bigger females need longer, but then you have to balance keeping their fat down too...

These are not like ball pythons (beanie babies) these are much different. All this is also why you see the adults show up for sale cheap. Often it is a keeper that had to trade the animal away for something after failing because he could not bring himself to sell the animal.

Jason

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