"...George got it, mad ea deal with the teacher, raised it and took over 10 years to actually make a bunch of them and sell the first ones at the MARS show in Timonium a bunch of years ago....they sold for $500...not alot."

And look what they go for now! $30-$50
That statement says alot about so many species that have just become available. A couple of years back mandarins were few and comanded $400 for babies. $250 isn't uncommon now. Red mountain / bamboo rats were there too and are about $200 now.
Piedbald ball pythons couldn't be touched for und $4,000 now as they can be had for $1,200.
I guess the thing to do as a breeder is to stay on top of whats hot, new and few.
Anyone have a picture of that origional female? It would be interesting to see what they started as.
Everthing changes, here another example...
30 years ago yellow, really yellow rats were easy to find. Now they have everything else mixed in and the really screeming yellow ones are hard to find.
Mike.

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• White-Sided Black Rats - POCooney, Wed May 25 16:18:11 2011
• yes - JYohe, Wed May 25 18:07:56 2011
• RE: yes - cochran, Wed May 25 18:31:27 2011
• RE: yes - DMong, Thu May 26 00:39:56 2011
• RE: yes - JYohe, Thu May 26 18:49:23 2011
• RE: yes - DMong, Thu May 26 19:20:35 2011
• RE: yes - pinelandsghost, Thu May 26 02:05:00 2011
• RE: yes - JYohe, Thu May 26 18:53:14 2011
• RE: White-Sided Black Rats - POCooney, Thu May 26 19:22:49 2011
• RE: White-Sided Black Rats - DMong, Thu May 26 21:56:23 2011
• RE: White-Sided Black Rats - POCooney, Thu May 26 23:34:58 2011
• LOL!! - DMong, Thu May 26 23:47:37 2011
• White-Sided..... Black Rats - JYohe, Fri May 27 21:34:34 2011