whats everyones thoughts

Just saw this http://market.kingsnake.com/detail.php?cat=65&de=971919 and wonder what everyones feelings are on this particulare morph worth getting into or not.

Don't think she's worth $2500 honestly.

If the vendor gets $2,500 it would be awesome, and a definite boost for the Cornsnake market. If not, then the price has to be lower. An animal is only worth what people are willing to pay

Never hurts to make an offer!!

When the Lava Plasma was listed for sale, she has generated the most interest and emails that I have ever responded to about a corn snake. Considering that she is a world's first, and carries a nice combination of genetics, $2,500 really isn't asking too much. Nanci is right - it never hurts to make an offer.

Beautiful snake! But once the first combo is available and all of its relatives with some or all of the same genetics are in the gene pool, too, it won't be long before there are many more. The market for $1000+ corns is very, very limited, especially for combos in which the various traits are already readily available. I would guess that other people are also working on similar projects, too. If you were to invest in something so expensive, you would want a male so that you could outcross it to as many females as possible that have as many of those traits as possible so you could recover the combo relatively quickly. As the very least, you would want a male (to pair with that female) that shows some of the traits and is het for all of the other so you could produce at least some in the first generation.

I think it may sell at it's asking price for a few reasons-
1. It's actually a very pretty snake
2. The genetic potential is amazing, with Lava and Lavender being hot morphs right now
3. With things like Palmettos popping up for $4,000, I think a market for higher end corns may pop up and this is a perfect combo to buy if you're dealing with high end Corns

well,she certainly is beautiful! looks like she has very nice diffusion as well.

Originally Posted by kathylove

If you were to invest in something so expensive, you would want a male so that you could outcross it to as many females as possible that have as many of those traits as possible so you could recover the combo relatively quickly. As the very least, you would want a male (to pair with that female) that shows some of the traits and is het for all of the other so you could produce at least some in the first generation.

Unless you simply wanted a one-of-a-kind living work of art. Many, perhaps most cornsnake buyers don't ever intend to breed their pets.

It's always fun to have the only one, to be able to watch it develop, to document its progress with photographs.

$2500.00 seems fair! . ( check out the avatar)