You will most likely never make a dime breeding snakes.

You will probably never make a dime breeding snakes, and it pisses me off just as much as it does you.

Well everyone knows you have to feed the snakes, pay for the bills on all the electrical stuff used to keep them alive, and of course, give them water. If you've already figured out that if you sell these beautiful morphs for the same price you bought them for you can get rich. Awesome! You're good at math... But here's what you haven't factored in.

By the time your snake is breeding age, the value of its morph will have dropped an average of 75% if you're lucky. It will usually drop more. Every morph starts out with one snake. Some snake got birthed that was a wild abnormality, and breeders have to go through a pretty long (years) and complicated process to get that morph to reproduce. Once they've got it to reproduce they can pretty much name their price. I've seen as high as $100,000 per snake. In a couple of years there may be three or four people breeding that morph, and the prices will stay astronomically high, but will begin to lower. As time goes on, the rate the price drops increases speed.

The thing is, if you're looking for a career, you probably won't be able to get in on the $100,000 snakes, which can potentially make you money some time down the road as the rate of price drop is really slow in the beginning because so few people have access to the morph. You're probably going to get in on snakes that are currently going for $5000, if you're lucky. So by the time you're breeding the snakes, the prized morph you're gunning for is going to be worth $1,250, and then even less the year after that. It will slowly drop in price until it's worth about $100. If you want to look at a mature morph market, check out corn snakes. These morphs used to be thousands of dollars, now breeders are lucky to sell a morph for more than $100.

The bottom line is, unless you're already rich, you aren't going to make money off snake breeding, you will in fact lose money. Feeding the snake + buying  the breeders is going to cost more than any money you'll ever make. I've tried every possible idea on how to make breeding a career, and the only one that pans out goes along the lines of, "First I need $500,000....". You get the point.  So save yourself a  lot of time and money, and don't breed unless you're just doing it for fun.