loconorc;1154073; said:Dude, blackheads cant be imported from Australia. All exports are banned. You can import them from Europe and other countries I guess though, but I assume thats not what you meant. They remain so expensive because not many people are willing to keep large snakes, and they arent the easiest snakes in the world. If someone, just one person, could start up a viable breeding colony and kickstart them into the mainstream we'd see more of them. But that might not be a good thing. They are really big, and a massive responsiblity... But they would be cheaper. And if it becomes cheaper, it will eventually become a a garbage animal, much like the route Wild-caught ball pythons and normal phase bearded dragons are going. Id' rather them stay expensive, as would I with lots of other animals.
But heck yeah, beauties they are!
From what I'm told from people that have owned them and worked with them, They are very easy to take care of. Require no special humidty requirements, Hot side 98, cool side 80-85, a few hides, and theyre good to go. Export numbers allow for more blackheads then what used to be the maximum number.
And I dont consider normal phase beardies garbage, I think theyre pretty damn cool. But I hate ball pythons, and ball python morphs, Theyre just ugly to me. Only BP morph I like are the black eyed leucistics.