No-two
Very Well-Known Member
After Snake Ranch showed us what they do in regards to prices when they release animals (charge extremely high prices then drop ENORMOUSLY within a few seasons) I would be surprised that anyone would pay so much for these albino Macs.
They are stunning animals and I will definitely buy one in the future...... Maybe in a couple of years when they are a quarter of this price!
As everyone has said, macs are easy to breed, lay larger clutches on average than the other antaresia and can be bred a lot younger than carpets. Plus we know that SR will slash prices once the private breeders start producing young and trying to sell them as this has been proven with the RSP and albino Darwins.
Roughies were never going to keep their high price as long as albinos, they're just brown snakes. Hardly appealing to those whom don't apreciate them for what they are. The demise of albino darwins was always there and wasn't instigated by SR either. I think albino prices will be fairly good, nothing silly, but they won't keep it long. They will be very popular animals and be easily sold by the bucket load once established for everyday keepers.
You have to remember the first people to get into them are investing and will want to make a profit. They can breed at 18months very easily but alot of people don't do it and don't 'get them' at that age. The clutch sizes are hardly big, in an 18month old you'd probably get 10. In terms of them being easy to breed, so are most snakes, it doesn't make a diferance.
Price drops are made by everyone everyday, I don't see anyone complaining about those. I have people calling me saying they've seen childreni for $100 will I do mine cheaper. I say buy the $100 ones and they almost always by mine for whatever I'm charging. The price drops aren't too bad, I'd rather sell 100 baby albinos at $500each than 20 at serval thousand.