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What is the most you've spent for a snake?

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I was looking around at ads for albino boas which are beautiful but pricey, and am curious as to exactly how expensive snakes can get.

I am sure thay some of the current morphs bring record breaking asking prices, but does anyone actually buy them at these prices? What is the most YOU'VE ever spent on a snake?

(All answers are confidential, we won't tell your spouse that they could've bought a big screen TV but you spent the bank account on a boa, lol) :hehe:
 
I think the most I have spent on ANY snake is $150.

If I could take all my $150 snakes and trade them in on a few $500 snakes it would be cool, but my snake room would be almost empty :unhappy:
 
The most I've ever spent on an individual snake is less than $200, and that would have been for adult corns that I bought in pairs.

The most I've ever spent on any reptile would be $400 each for two of my male albino African fat-tail geckos from Garrick DeMeyer. The next closest would be $315 for a bearded dragon from Vickie Dachiu.

I'd really like to get a pair of albino ball pythons, or maybe even a spider, but I want to work with the *cheap stuff* for a while and build my way up to that level. I know I'll break my record within the next month or so when I finally place my order with SerpenCo. I just can't figure out which morphs I want to focus on. :slamit: That, and I can't find a striped Anery B. cornsnake, or an amber motley...
 
expensive snakes

I've always had a champagne taste in animals it seems, although there are many beautiful lower priced snakes, I found myself taken by the green tree pythons and along with that came the possibilities of incredible "designer" types with incredible colors and all that.....

I've got a couple that were not offered publicly that I continue to make payments on that were VERY expensive, the next most expensive one was $7.5k, but the majority of my snakes came to me in the $750-2K price range.

All of these have been cbb gtps, some with pedigrees going back to the earliest breedings in the US!! I just LOVE waking up in the mornings and going to see all my little pretties!!!!

I know it's a bit crazy, but I'm 51 now, kids are grown and on their own, and this is MY passion... I don't spend money on fancy cars/clothes/jewelry... it's all for the animals!! There is not a single snake here I've had second thoughts or any regrets about :dancer01:
 
Well, I don't buy snakes, but I've bought a $500 gecko. Can I be in your costly herp club? LOL
 
$700 on a 0.1 axanthic white-sided brooks kingsnake and 1.0 het.
 
PaulSage said:
The most I've ever spent on an individual snake is less than $200, and that would have been for adult corns that I bought in pairs.

I know I'll break my record within the next month or so when I finally place my order with SerpenCo. I just can't figure out which morphs I want to focus on. :slamit: That, and I can't find a striped Anery B. cornsnake, or an amber motley...
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Okay, well we've taken care of breaking the record with the $400 Amber Motley I just picked up... and he's AWESOME!! :dancer01:
 
lol... I thought about that right after I posted, but I figured, "nah... nobody's gonna ask." :hehe:

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Here he is!

Purdy nifty eh?
 
My most I spent for one snake is $700 for a 100% Het Caramel Ball from NERD.
 
$750 for a 1.0 DH Ghost Boa. It was purchased locally but had been produced by Dr. Owens so I blame him for the cost....:raspberry
 
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