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| HERICUS |
Posted - 08/07/2011 : 08:26:13
Does the morph of the snake affect the price at which they are for sale? if so why?
Or is it purely based on the looks of the snake?
eg...
Why would an amber strip hatchling be offered for £150.00 yet a reverse okeetee be only £50.00 |
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| eeji |
Posted - 09/07/2011 : 13:22:43
there are people that will quite happily pay £2000+ for the latest and greatest cornsnake morph, which are comparatively 'cheap' compared to other species, eg for a snow hognose (only a double comination) you're looking well over £5000 and royal morphs get to ridiculous prices.
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| HERICUS |
Posted - 09/07/2011 : 09:43:01
really!?!!!?
i better start saving then as i fancied a python!!! thats if the other half lets me anyway!!!!!! |
| reptiledanny |
Posted - 08/07/2011 : 22:20:08
you should see the royal python world  |
| gmac |
Posted - 08/07/2011 : 22:14:28
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Originally posted by HERICUS
bloody hell, i had no idea finding and creating new morphs was so complex and time consuming!?
i can imagine then, once you find a rare and unique morph, potentially theres alot of money to be made.
i read a post on here somewhere, some one was selling a morph for £1000 each! red sided pied or something?? do people actually pay that amount of money for a rare morph!!?!?
some have been more expensive than that |
| HERICUS |
Posted - 08/07/2011 : 21:11:42
bloody hell, i had no idea finding and creating new morphs was so complex and time consuming!?
i can imagine then, once you find a rare and unique morph, potentially theres alot of money to be made.
i read a post on here somewhere, some one was selling a morph for £1000 each! red sided pied or something?? do people actually pay that amount of money for a rare morph!!?!? |
| eeji |
Posted - 08/07/2011 : 19:08:33
as an example, imagine you discovered a new morph that nobody else has. The first thing you'd need to do is breed it with a normal to determine whether its dominant or recessive.
Thats two to three years gone already, so lets say all the babies come out looking normal. This means the morph is either not inheritable, or its recessive.
Now wait another two or three years for those babies to grow up so you can breed them to prove 100% they are recessive. After a minimum of four years you have your sparkly new proven morph, and now you want to combine it with others.
If you choose to combine with another recessive then it all starts again........ |
| HERICUS |
Posted - 08/07/2011 : 18:28:42
so the more combos, the more work the higher the cost. economics really.
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| eeji |
Posted - 08/07/2011 : 18:26:25
as well as supply and demand, prices rise with the more morphs in a combination because there is more work involved in making that combination, eg to get a combination of 5 morphs in one animal takes a lot of doing |
| ptmbradley |
Posted - 08/07/2011 : 11:25:46
Supply and demand. Some morphs are 2 a penny, some are quite rare. People are very interested in some morphs and not interested in others.
Normals are 2 a penny and not much in demand, so they're cheap. Tesseras for example are not very common but are desired by the public, so therefore command a much higher price.  |
| Figs |
Posted - 08/07/2011 : 09:50:47
Yes is does
I'm not sure who decides on prices and why, but number of genes and rarity of that morph certainly makes a difference.
So your reverse okeetee only has the one gene; amel.
But your amber stripe has 3; caramel, hypo and stripe. Much more breeding potential there |
