[GarterGuy]

Ok everyone, I need some advice or words of wisdom on something that's been bugging me for about a week now. I'm looking for a REALLY nice garter to be the "paramount" of my collection. I checked out Felzer's list of what is expected for 2008 and found that he was possibly going to have babies of the red hypo T.radix. I had seen the one example of this snake on his page for a while and wondered why he never just decided to breed it normally (he's crossing it with an albino to make a "hybino") to produce nice red T.radix. It's an outstanding looking snake and I'd love to work with radix and it being a red radix is really cool. I'm not really into the freaky crosses and hybrids that are out there....but I've seen pics of other red T.radix, so I assume this is a natural (yet rare) colour variety. Now though, here's the big BUT.....BUT he's asking $255 per snake! I figured maybe around $100 or so for them (same as the flame sirtalis), but was not ready for $255 ea., which comes out to over $500 a pair (I gotta get a pair if I'm getting any!). So this is what I'm beating myself up over....is it worth $500 to have a rare and beautiful garter???? I could get almost 4 flame sirtalis for that much cash.