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selling baby corn snakes

keeney

keeney

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I'm a new breeder and wondering where the best place to sell baby corn snakes and how much roughly they go for ? Where do other breeders on here sell there snakes ?
 
Around here, normals, amels, aneries, snows, and so forth go for around $5 to $10 each at reptile shows. With common mutations, it can be difficult to get enough to cover the cost of feeding the parents. I don't deliberately produce anything common for that reason, though do produce some non-target stuff each year. I sell most of my snakes through here, fauna, friends, and shows.
 
There is a classifieds section below these topics that you can put the babies up for sale, also the Fauna Classifieds is a good place. As for price, research. Find what your babies will most likely be and find others for sale, that will give you a good idea.

Many breeders have their own websites which is the best way to advertise, and make a FaceBook page.

What are you breeding, if I may ask?
 
Thanks for reply's, like I said I'm new to this but very keen to give it a try, my snake (I've been told) is a candy cane, I'll try and post a pic of her when I get used to how the site works , so you can see her
 
How old is she and what does she weigh, and do you already have a mate for her?
 
she is 5 years old just over 5 foot long , I bred her about 2 and a half weeks ago, I've posted a pic on here but not sure if I done it right, may someone can tell me if she is a candy cane or not , thanks
 
Much like "okeetee," candy cane is a line bred "look" rather than a gene. All candy canes are amels, but all amels are not candy canes. Can't see enough of your animal to say, but the mutation is definitely amel.
 
I must sound thick, sorry ! is amel just a common type of corn ? I have mated her with a corn that I think looks like a normal corn that would be found in the wild , quite dark
 
Amels are very common. Bred to a normal, babies would either all be normal, or you could have a mix of normals and amels if the normal is carrying the amel gene. There is also an off chance that something else is created if both snakes have matching hidden hets.
 
Amel is a common morph and breeding an Amel (Candycane in your case) to a Normal will result in Normals. Which are the most common morph of all. The only way you would get something other than normal is if both parents have the same Hets. If your female truly is a Candycane then chances are slim that she contains any Hets at all due to the line breeding necessary to get her signature look.
Terri
 
Sorry another stupid question, what is gets ? Thank you for your help and being patient with me.
 
Hets is short for heterozygous, that means carrying a gene that doesn't show. Like if you breed a normal to an amel, the babies will all be normals. But they will carry the amel gene.
 
Het stands for heterozygous, meaning that the snake is only carrying one copy of the gene. Since most corn snake genes are recessive, they have to carry two copies of the gene to express the trait. So an amel corn snake is carrying two copies of the amel gene. If a snake is het amel, that means he is only carrying one copy of the gene, so he looks normal, but he could produce amels if he is bred to another snake with the amel gene.

Does that make sense?
 
Being "lost" is the first step in the breeding game. LOL No worries, everyone has been there at some time. It's a learning curve. The more you read the more you'll learn and the less lost you will become.
The Corn Snake Morph Guide digital version would be a good place to start. If you are interested in learning.

Terri
 
keeney said:
I'm sorry I am really new to all of this, to be honest I'm lost !
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Speaking of being "lost", are you prepared for what you will need to do if your girl lays eggs? Do you know what is needed to have a good chance of hatching them?

How about if you are successful in hatching out the babies? What are you going to do then? Got a source of pinky (baby) mice lined up? Sounds like you have a big girl. What are you going to do if you hatch out 30 babies?

Sounds to me that you have a whole bunch of learning to do REAL QUICKLY. To be honest, you should have been asking questions long BEFORE thinking about doing the breeding step. I think you've got a lot of catching up to do. There are sections on this site that I recommend you spend a lot of time reading.

Good luck!
 
I hate to plug my own thread, but as much as what I have to say, the comments and experiences others chimed in with should be eye-opening, and every question you have asked is touched on: http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=126082

Take a moment and read this. If you aren't prepared this year, no harm in throwing those eggs in the trash. I throw some away every year. She'll do it again next season.
 
I've got an incubator ready and have rubs to put the baby's in, and I'll try and sell them on the intern at and to friends.
 
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