Quote Originally Posted by RedSidedSPR View Post
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.