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18-Nov-04, 05:39 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-03 Location: Gosford | | | | Ether,
They should throw nothing but albino's when they are finally bred. As for who bought them I am not a liberty to say :wink: |
18-Nov-04, 06:33 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-03 Location: Cleveland, near Brisvegas Age: 27 | | | | maybe if i sell my mother i can have one then... and maybe my sister to!!!
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18-Nov-04, 06:40 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-04 Location: Sunshine coast, Qld, Australia Age: 20 | | | | ill take them ag ha ha ha
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18-Nov-04, 07:23 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Newcastle, NSW | | | | I'm still not convinced there is someone in Australia dumb enough to spend $25,000 on a snake which has barely raised any interest in the past.
Simon Archibald |
18-Nov-04, 07:27 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-04 Location: North West WA | | | | Seeing that the left nut is gone simon, would you go double or nothing if they offered another pair at the same price. lol |
18-Nov-04, 07:36 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Newcastle, NSW | | | | Haha Jim...not sure on that...although I know for sure I don't want kids :-)
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18-Nov-04, 07:40 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-03 Location: Darwin Age: 18 | | | | i can see someone buying them for a investment, you could make your money back fast, but chances are the price will go down like with what happened with american albinos. but this will be some time |
18-Nov-04, 07:43 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-03 Location: Gosford | | | | Simon, thats $25,000 for a pair, or $12,500 each. When you consider yearling Gtp's lately have been sold for nearly the same amount, and they are relatively common compared to the white Olives, than its not a bad price for an investment species.
As for previous interest, there has been heaps but most people were scared off by the huge price that was sought for them. A few have been sold at the much higher price that was origionaly sought. |
18-Nov-04, 07:45 PM
|  | Regular Member | | | | | if you work it out in the end they would easily make there money back but i think its the fact of the $25k output for hatchies. and darwins will only be $5k ea not $12,500ea
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18-Nov-04, 07:46 PM
|  | primitively archaic Moderator | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Wagga Wagga NSW 2650 Gender:  | | | Quote: |
$25,000 on a snake which has barely raised any interest in the past.
| No interest? This is not the first post on this site about these pythons and I have seen them discussed on other sites as well.
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18-Nov-04, 07:50 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Newcastle, NSW | | | | Yes Greebo they've been discussed...but how many people do you know that own them? I'm talking genuine interest from people who are ready and willing to purchase.
Simon Archibald |
18-Nov-04, 08:07 PM
| | primitively archaic Moderator | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Wagga Wagga NSW 2650 Gender: | | | | Good point. I guess people that can afford them have better things to do than post on Discussion forums.
Then there is the old saying..."You have to spend money to make money." For some people $25 grand does not seem as much as it might to you or me.
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18-Nov-04, 08:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Simon_Archibald Yes Greebo they've been discussed...but how many people do you know that own them? I'm talking genuine interest from people who are ready and willing to purchase. | There was lots of interest in the past just not from a herper with that kind of spending money. The market is not that big in Australia. There were plenty of bites from Germany and other places export was out of the question.
If you do the maths based on getting them to breed with an initial clutch of say 10 hatchings in three years time and even assuming that the asking price drops I think you would see an adequate return on your investment soon after. If not in the first year then soon after.
These guys seem quite hardy in captivity and that would be the main risk.
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18-Nov-04, 08:26 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: NTH QLD | | | | The albino olives don't do much for me at all,maybe if seen in the flesh i mightthink a bit more of them and at 25k for a pair of hatchlings that will take at least 3-5 years to become sexually mature,then hope for a successfull breeding producing all albinos i would say you would definitely get your initial invesment back no problem depending again on the selling price!!!
Iwould much rather spend 5k on an albino Darwin tho as they aren't just white but white and bright high yellow,easier to breed etc...and greens are going for anywhere from 5-10k plus depending on age and sex.I saw a few different greens last week and one was an absolute stunner which i could see myself investing in,they've always been a green carpet to me but this particular one i saw was hot ho hot..
Having said that a 9 ft white scoob looking snake would be kinda cool wouldn't it!!!
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18-Nov-04, 08:38 PM
| | Sponsor | Join Date: May-04 Location: Melbourne | | | | If you breed albino to albino you will get all albino offspring. This is a given.
The thing that sets the abino olive's apart is that they are completely patternless. Other species that have pattern with other than malanin (sp??), such as the darwin's and the burms you see overseas, are patterned it is only the melanin that is missing from their pigment.
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