I think when people sell snakes that high it's for several reasons. One, they rteally don't want to sell it but if some one gives them that amount they will. Two, this makes people think they can make big bucks by buying the much cheaper Hets and then sell the offspring for big bucks. But usually the breeder keeps a huge amount of hold backs and then floods the market with his snakes and forces the prices to drop before other breeders can sell their snakes. Just a theory

That theory does not work anymore. people know when you are holding back stuff. the people that are interested in a high end morph usually find out how many were produced by that breeder. When i sell high end animals it is usually the second or thrid i ever produced. People that have an interst know this and keep their ear to the ground.

I know of one person today that is taking your theory into practise. he had 5 new morphs and a high profile breeder oferred him $15,000. each for 3 of his animals. The seller decided to holdback the 3 and one died a month later causing him to lose $15,000. . he belives he can produce a large amount and sell them at one time when he is able to produce large number. But that is simply not going to happen because people INVESTING in high end animals are not going to go for that.They know what is going on. So what will happen is he will have to sell 3 or 4 to make up for the price of one and add in the loss he already has and he is way behind as those babies will only take two years and the prices will drop by 50% again. This is a sure way to crash a market price on a particular new morph.

another mistake he made is he is not a known breeder. by sharing a high end rare morph with a high profile breeder and others the advertisement is made and more people are aware of that paticual morph. thus interest will be higher and people will seek the originator or the person that best suits them to purchase from.

best thing to do when producing a new morph is share that with a few other people. Then everyone is equal on the price a couple years down the line. This allows the values not to drop and everyone gets a good return.

Also, hets are the best investment. especially if the traits hold something not seen yet or there is only one in existence and it is a female becasuse not to many hets can be produced. The het issue has been discussed at length here in previous threads and most people underestimate the returns of hets. If it is something brand new you can go from a small investment to big bucks with no or hardly any competion. Most savy breeders seek these types of investments out. Not so much with the general public.

IMO, Co-dom traits are not a good investment because prices fall after too many animals are produce to quickly.We have seen this with the leapard geckos and ball pythons. The recessive traits are the best investment.
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