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[peterjohnson64]

There is a lot of talk about GTP's at the moment with Ultimate Reptiles selling their hatchlings for $7,700 each. Not a bad earn when you have 12 hatchlings. Thats about $100,000.

Wouldn't it be

a. wonderful to even own a GTP and
b. even better to make money out of them.

The only problems are.

1. If you only buy 1 you have little chance of breeding it (duh!).
2. if you buy 2 you have to be lucky to get a pair and then at $15,400

You really need to buy 3 or even 4 to have any chance of breeding them in the future and that means $30,000. So how do you get there?

Possible Solution: GTP Syndicate.

Why not get 4 people to buy one hatchling each. There is your 4. You all share the risk and the return. You dont lose out if yours dies or turns out the wrong sex. They are bought as a partnership. Perhaps even keep them together in a neutral place (Reptile Park for example). In a few years you should manage to have a breeding pair between the 4.

Get them to breed and share in the proceeds. There should be enough to

1.Pay back your initial investment and
2. Give you a breeding pair of your own.

I don't know much about snakes but I have put together some VERY profitable property syndicates over the past years for people who couldn't have invested on their own. I reckon these could work the same.

Just a thought.

Now attack me.

Johnno