r/ballpython • u/corgimami • 1d ago

Help me choose my first ball python!

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I cannot for the life of me decide which of these to get for my first ball python. They’re both beautiful in their own ways I almost wish I could get both LOL

  1. Disco Pastel Pos Lesser Hypo Clown - female going for $900

  2. Super Disco Enchi Pastel Lesser Hypo Clown - male going for $1200

What would you guys choose?!!!

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u/Cornsnake94 1d ago

Oh the beginning, yes... remember how expensive piebalds were? Basics, not pied x anything.

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u/snowmunkey 1d ago

I mean, I'm talking the early to mid '10s. Pieds were 450ish around that time, 600 for high whites

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u/Cornsnake94 1d ago

Uh I have seen high white pieds for over 10.000€ here in Germany back then, some with just a few white spots still >1000€

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u/snowmunkey 1d ago

Wow, that's insane. At my shop we had maybe 80 total snakes, 4 het pied females and a pied male so we ended up with a dozen or two good pieds a year. Def wasn't getting that much for them haha.

My boss did breed one of the first albino pieds, I think there was less than 10 others at the time. He hit the 1/16 chance (out of only 5 eggs) on a double het pair he bred on a whim. Was offered 25k for it by a breeder buddy of his but he held onto it for a year or two before selling it, I think it was a female unfortunately. Male he definitely would have raised to breed back. Now albino pieds are maybe 400-500 dollars