What makes a GTP a Ferrari while other snakes are just Holdens?
In my eyes - yes. In yours probably not, lets not argue about it.
CodeRed, Jaguar is much cheaper than Ferrari
What makes a GTP a Ferrari while other snakes are just Holdens?
There have been many closing statements on this thread I think the mods should consider closing it before it comes back around full circle again
so is anyone going to answer my question cuz i was being serious
so is anyone going to answer my question cuz i was being serious
Aren't Jaguar carpet pythons an illegal import from smuggled-in overseas bloodlines?
I don't think that ethical herpers would condone smuggling activity by supporting morphs with a dodgy history.
Someone asked me; "how do you justify asking twice as much for your snakes than Joe Blow? Are they that much better?"
Well, you can flip the coin and ask Joe Blow: "are you snakes not good enough by that much?"
The problem we have in this hobby, there are no standards. The penniless grubs keep on screaming "the cheaper, the better" and their followers take the bottom price as a benchmark. It is not. Benchmark is never set by price - it is always set by certain standard and quality and prices fluctuate above and bellow that benchmark.
At the moment the benchmark (per each species) is arbitrary and herpers have to decide which is more important to them - price or quality. It is an individual decision but pulling the benchmark down into the gutter because you can't afford this or that is not fair. It may influence others, less experienced herpers and newbies.
Aren't Jaguar carpet pythons an illegal import from smuggled-in overseas bloodlines?
I don't think that ethical herpers would condone smuggling activity by supporting morphs with a dodgy history.
Waterrat;1815496 At the moment the benchmark (per each species) is arbitrary and herpers have to decide which is more important to them - price or quality. It is an individual decision but pulling the benchmark down into the gutter because you can't afford this or that is not fair. It may influence others said:but surely that is conjecture and not at all proven. This again is the case of how much people are willing to let go of their snakes for. To state that price always directly reflects the quality of a persons animals is slanderous and untrue. theoretically and in an ordered world, this would be the case. Practically and in the chaotic world (in which we live) it will never be.
another point on this "time x effort x cost of upkeep = price" scenario which has come up a few time. If the time/effort/feeding costs were a major factor in determining price then colubrids such as the common tree snake would cost more than GTP's with the higher frequency of feeding and the difficulty of getting hatchies feeding steadily on fish & mice. Not to mention the challenges of getting CTS to have successful clutches unless you are living in or around their native area.
I didn't know that Cris, so thanks. It doesn't surprise me that such health problems exist in seriously inbred bloodlines like some of these exotic morphs.It would be an obvious assumption, but you wouldnt be able to prove it unless you did it your self and took some pics for the extreme sceptics. Even without this they are illegal for a number of other reasons, one being their neurological problems which make breeding them against many animal cruelty laws. I would be extremely suprised if anyone got prosecuted for it though (unless caught at the airport).
To state that price always directly reflects the quality of a persons animals is slanderous and untrue.
Those smiley's should be banned for the same reason!
why r GTP's so much more expensive than other snakes?
They don't cost anymore than a carpet to keep , in fact an adult carpet would cost more to feed than an adult GTP.- so I can't see why they should still cost so much.
That is a truly weird logic. Have you ever kept GTPs? :?
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