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I have been offered a trade my SHTCTB hatchling and two normal ball females for this male told to me a 100% het ghost orange how does he look to you and is that a good trade want to make sure thanks
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The first question is whether the person representing this male as a 100% het orange ghost is telling the truth. I see three possibilities. The first is that he honestly believes that this snake has that gene when the snake does not. The second is that he knows that the snake is just a pretty male normal and is trying to get you to trade two female normals and a nice leo for a male normal. The third possibility is that this snake really is what he claims it to be. Until you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that this snake is what he claims, I'd say that you're making a bad deal.

You can probably go to kingsnake.com and a few breeder sites to get a rough idea of the prices for a 100% het orange ghost male. With that information, you can calculate the financial value of these animals. I'd say that normal female hatchling ball pythons are in the twenty to forty dollar range. I don't know what the little leo is worth, but I'm sure that you do. If you're certain of the male's genetics and the male is worth a great deal of money, then maybe the deal is a good deal according to the numbers.

The next thing to consider is what you really want to do with ball pythons. As I said in a previous post, I've never heard of anyone serious about breeding who was willing to let go of females. If you are planning to produce many ball python hatchlings, you'll need females to carry eggs.

Another thing to consider is your time frame on producing orange ghosts. If you make the trade to get this male, you'll either have to invest the money into a female het orange ghost or you'll have to get female normals from another source. If you get the female normals as hatchlings, you'll likely need three years before they are ready to breed. With power feeding, you might get lucky and have them ready in two years, but you should count on three. After mating them with this male, you can hope to get females and hope that one of those females has the orange ghost gene. You then have to raise the new females for three more years to breed them with this male. If you're lucky enough to have produced a female with the orange ghost gene, you might have an orange ghost hatchling in six or seven years. If the power feeding is perfect, maybe you can knock that number down to four or five years, but anyone who tries to make four years sound likely is being either dishonest or foolish. Are you ready to spend the next six years feeding multiple ball pythons and their hatchlings in order to have an orange ghost? If so, maybe this trade would have value. If not, then you're trading two normal females and a leo for a male that just looks like any normal male.


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