All I can say to albino olives is try and make a list of 10 people that have breed them.
That doesn't seem to have much bearing on the price of hets which like everything else has dropped dramatically.
This is most likely due to their diffcult nature to breed and I would imagine, like myself, most would rather just buy albinos instead of waiting 5+years for them to breed and then hope that you are successful. At least with white snakes you can appreciate them from the day you get them. Not that there is anything wrong with normal olives.
Agreed & if you breed hets you end up with a load of worthless Possibles & then if you lose a couple of eggs & they'd be sure to be the white fellas.
Keep in mind the worthless possibles still get sold as hets ....
View attachment 188319View attachment 188320There are about 100 Albino Olives in the world now and quite a few thousand Albino Carpets which shows just how hard they are to breed given that the foundation animals were found in the wild about the same time.
IMO Albino Olives WILL stay high up on the list,harder to breed,not many have them,require larger enclosures etc.Its ashame that albino darwins etc are being bred by the thousands,hence why there dropping in price.I can only imagine what there going to sell for in a year or two..I cant see anything wrong with wanting to swap a hatchie Chondro for a non-feeder albino darwin.The thing with albino olives is they seem to be more pure white,compared to darwins that have yellow.They truely are a magnificent python and when-if i have the room they will defiantly be in my collection..
I was selling GTP's at this expo and sold out very quickly, do not recall there being a flood of greens at this show we took 20 hatchling and 5 yearling all sold very quickly and there was no dropping the pricing to compete with Anyone there, come to think of it there was only one other person selling GTPs at this show and I am sure they would not have drop there price either at the last years wild expo.Pythons73- Albino olives wont stay high for long i dont think i remember the day days when Green Pythons were getting large amounts for hatchlings and yearlings, then womas pairs were expensive and BHpythons i think there is a 5 year cycle prices start high and if your cashed up you can buy now but at the end of that cycle 5 year mark prices fall to unbeleivable prices, last years wild expo there wasa flood of greens so many i went and played ( breeders ) off each other to bring the price down i have never seen that before. so in time prices will fall but more like 5 years or less we destroy our own markets !!!
Hey Tim,
Any idea what prices you will be asking for the albinos? Do you find them hard to breed?
Hey Tim,
Any idea what prices you will be asking for the albinos? Do you find them hard to breed?
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