Expensive garters

[RedSidedSPR]

I don't really even know what $500 snake you're talking about.

Here's a couple of $400-500+ (i get the feeling you don't believe me...)
Scott Felzer's Garter Snakes, specializing in aberrant garters
Scott Felzer's Garter Snakes, specializing in aberrant garters
Scott Felzer's Garter Snakes, specializing in aberrant garters

And here's the $45,000 ball python, just for the heck of it.
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[ConcinusMan]

Here's a couple of $400-500+ (i get the feeling you don't believe me...)
Scott Felzer's Garter Snakes, specializing in aberrant garters
Scott Felzer's Garter Snakes, specializing in aberrant garters
Scott Felzer's Garter Snakes, specializing in aberrant garters

And here's the $45,000 ball python, just for the heck of it.
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Oh, I believed you, I just didn't know what albinos you were talking about. And $45,000 for a ball python isn't even close to high end. I've seen some for $250,000 before. Don't even get me started on retics.

The albinos that Scott is charging those prices for, aren't all that easy to produce. It's not just as simple as producing more. Erythristic albinos for example are combo morphs. You can breed two snakes with the right genes, but to get them to come together just right in any one snake in the litter, the odds are very slim. And as far as albino flames go, it's a similar situation. Even when you do beat the odds and get an albino flame, their color always varies. To get very intense colored flames that are also albino... again, low odds even if you breed the right snakes, very few will be "high end". It's not like other albinos such as iowas or nebraskas. Your litter either has them, or it doesn't, and they are easy to produce. Not so with the expensive albinos you listed there.

[snakeman]

Oh, I believed you, I just didn't know what albinos you were talking about. And $45,000 for a ball python isn't even close to high end. I've seen some for $250,000 before. Don't even get me started on retics.

The albinos that Scott is charging those prices for, aren't all that easy to produce. It's not just as simple as producing more. Erythristic albinos for example are combo morphs. You can breed two snakes with the right genes, but to get them to come together just right in any one snake in the litter, the odds are very slim. And as far as albino flames go, it's a similar situation. Even when you do beat the odds and get an albino flame, their color always varies. To get very intense colored flames that are also albino... again, low odds even if you breed the right snakes, very few will be "high end". It's not like other albinos such as iowas or nebraskas. Your litter either has them, or it doesn't, and they are easy to produce. Not so with the expensive albinos you listed there.

Out of about 50 babies I got I got 5 really nice albino flames.Yes, They are hard to produce.Albino erythristics are even harder.

[RedSidedSPR]

Oh, I believed you, I just didn't know what albinos you were talking about. And $45,000 for a ball python isn't even close to high end. I've seen some for $250,000 before. Don't even get me started on retics.

$250,000?!? Who would pay that much? You could buy a freaking Ferrari with that!! Not to mention it's probably hardly any different from the normal ball python. jeez.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Oh, I believed you, I just didn't know what albinos you were talking about. And $45,000 for a ball python isn't even close to high end. I've seen some for $250,000 before. Don't even get me started on retics.

having many personal friends that are off the deep end into the python morphs... $45,000 is definitely high end! Not too many pythons actually sell cash value for that you know. The majority of snakes that are priced that high, are traded for other extremely rare and valuable morphs or expensive items such as a whole new room full of caging... a car... etc! A lot of morph people use their own self-proved out rare morphs to gain leverage to get other things they don't have or can't afford to outright buy. they don't usually start selling for actual outright cash until they hit like, $7k. There are ALWAYS exceptions... and I personally watched a guy lay out $12k in CASH on a table for a snake at a show... but a lot of outrageously priced snakes are not actually exchanged for real money.... and if they are, generally, it's a payment plan or a partial cash partial trade.