How Many Snakes Does it Take to Make $50k a Year?

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How Many Snakes Does it Take to Make $50k a Year?

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While we were planning out holdbacks and pickups for 2022, we decided to see if we could find out exactly how many snakes would it take to make a fulltime income for one person. While the surface level seemed pretty obvious, we were surprised to find the difference in cost between working high end projects and pet-level projects isn't as different as we thought.
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@Varenyam86 10 ай бұрын

Great video. Down to earth. Especially the reminder that time is the most valuable of all :) thanks!

@LeviathanSnakes 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching! We really appreciate your comment!

@Ibaneddie76 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video, very comprehensive I see you are very business minded. You bring something different to the hobby and I definitely appreciate it, not that I don't like being people cut eggs open or show us their collections every video but it's great to have more business oriented ideas as well. Keep up the great work guys!

@LeviathanSnakes 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much and we really appreciate you taking the time to watch!!

@jablank3180 Жыл бұрын

This sounds good if 167 snakes sell for $300 profit. What does it cost to feed, clean supplies, bedding, energy cost, maintenance ext. for your breeders year round and the cost to feed care for the 167 before you sell?

@LeviathanSnakes Жыл бұрын

Completely agree and honestly I have no idea. The more animals you have, the higher your overhead is to care for them all. Personally I don’t think trying to produce and sell 167 pet level hatchlings a year is the best way to attempt to make a living breeding snakes due to all the cost you outlined in your comment

@NixonReptiles 2 жыл бұрын

Good video and solid info man people sometimes don’t take some of those factors into consideration as housing, food cost, and especially the work required selling animals that fit more into that pet range.

@LeviathanSnakes 2 жыл бұрын

Completely agree, man, and thank you so much for watching and commenting and always showing your support! Loving the videos you have been putting out!

@WarfelsMorphs 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! You two put out such great content! I can’t wait for the day I’m just breeding snakes for a living!

@LeviathanSnakes 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Jeremy! You are awesome, and we hope your May the 4th show crushed it!

@Frewarin 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. I’ve been building my collection for a little over a year now. I’m working towards a balanced price range for my snakes. 200-3,000 range.

@LeviathanSnakes 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much and we are pretty much the same! We want to have animals at every price point so we can help serve the widest amount of people possible!

@th3otherguy558 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video! Seeing the difference in levels when looking at racks and all costs involved was awesome!

@LeviathanSnakes 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you friend! We really appreciate you taking the time to watch!

@sarahreyes9419 2 жыл бұрын

You really put it into perspective for someone like me who is just getting started. Great video!

@LeviathanSnakes 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you and thank you so much for watching! Do you have an IG account for your reptile brand? If so we would love to check it out and share some of the love!

@mainsqueezereptiles6264 2 жыл бұрын

Now This Is the Info we need.

@LeviathanSnakes 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Main! You are awesome and we always love seeing in the comments! We really appreciate you!

@KEYSConstrictors 2 жыл бұрын

This is a great video....absolutely love your content 👏🏽 👏🏽💪🏾💪🏾🙌🏾 on all platforms 💯

@LeviathanSnakes 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you friends!! It was super fun breaking down all the numbers!!! Definitely want to do more like this in the future!

@inquiline 2 жыл бұрын

This video is awesome! Definitely saving this to my youtube library! I will certainly be watching this again. Keep up the great work!

@LeviathanSnakes 2 жыл бұрын

You are awesome, Jon! Hope everything is going well! I feel like we haven't seen you as much recently!

@SilentC90 7 ай бұрын

Great vid man. Been on the fence for a while...... Thinking about taking the leap. Very informative love you guys man 💪🏾💪🏾👍🏾

@LeviathanSnakes 7 ай бұрын

Super happy you found it helpful!! Congrats on getting into the breeding side of the hobby! Cant wait to see everything you produce!

@walkingwolf8072 6 ай бұрын

Dude, invest in other species that are less expensive to breed, and the normal's sell for a reasonable price that you are not losing money. Normal boas all sell for much more than 25 dollars the price of a normal ball python. Half of your clutches will be normal. Hog nose snakes normal's sell for 100 to 200 dollars, and they only eat pinkies or fuzzy mice. Other species are going up in price instead of down with much less investment. The ball python breeding market is a pyramid scheme that only works with the lower tier getting hosed.

@squllymcfadden6262 2 ай бұрын

Great content! At the same time this gave me anxiety.

@leahalexander3994 Жыл бұрын

Love the videos as you guys already know I've been growing mine to breed to give me plenty of time to learn. I should start producing my first clutches end of 2023. Your videos are very helpful to people like me thank you!

@LeviathanSnakes Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much friend and we can’t wait to see what you produce!!!

@demetriuspowell29 Жыл бұрын

This year I plan on buying two snakes just to start

@KidReptiles 5 ай бұрын

ive watched a lot of your videos, your info is incredible, just up the mic volume a tad as im blasting this stuff at like 80% to get good volume, either that or im going deaf :D Either is possible, love the videos either way

@LeviathanSnakes 5 ай бұрын

Yes! Are the more recent videos better? This one was from a couple years back and we have definitely tried to pay more attention to audio recently

@yrvinmangandi5919 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for putting out this video a lot of great tips

@LeviathanSnakes Жыл бұрын

Of course! We are stoked you found it useful!

@11yoyomama 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing video, I really love content like this

@LeviathanSnakes 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you David! We really appreciate you, and hope to see you in the chat on Adam's live on Tuesday!

@ErieReptiles-Jenn 2 жыл бұрын

Definitely good content here. Gives me a nice goal. I'm hoping for my first eggs soon!

@LeviathanSnakes 2 жыл бұрын

That is so cool and congrats! What is the pairing for your first clutch?

@ErieReptiles-Jenn 2 жыл бұрын

@@LeviathanSnakes I should hopefully have a few, leopard lesser x spider, lesser pin het VPI x het VPI, albino het pied x pin het pied, pied x HGW YB sugar, coral glow pastel g stripe x spider are the first locks we have had

@pythonpatrolexotics Жыл бұрын

I'm going into my 2nd year. I'm am breading pet ball pythons currently, BUT I'm doing so to re-invest in higher end genes. I want to sell in multiple price points. I also know that even if I produce a 15k animal, the market of people willing to buy a 15k animal, is a market where reputation is everything! Nobody is going to buy from Joe shmoe who has been breeding for 2 years, when they can go to Ozzy, JKR, ect...

@LeviathanSnakes Жыл бұрын

It is a definite challenge trying to sell without a big name. Our advice is to actively market yourself in the 2-3 years you are raising up animals so by the time you do have high end animals, you have built up trust within the community. Thank you so much for watching btw!

@NickHowellElectricgeckos 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing content! Love this video

@LeviathanSnakes 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! It was really fun diving into all the numbers and really interesting when looking at the costs on a holistic level!

@sergiobardesi-texocotitla2141 2 жыл бұрын

18:22 snake: hey where am i going no ssstoop i wanna be in frame

@LeviathanSnakes 2 жыл бұрын

Love Ares so much. He is definitely my favorite of all our snakes but don't tell the others lol

@RAM_C5 2 жыл бұрын

Great video

@LeviathanSnakes 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching and for taking the time to comment! You are awesome!

@Cathan424 2 жыл бұрын

I figured on generic numbers food alone will cost almost 700 dollars in cost just for food

@LeviathanSnakes 2 жыл бұрын

That is wild, it definitely adds up fast and it makes it harder to try to make a fulltime living primarily producing pet-level animals. Thank you so much for figuring that up and for always showing support man. We appreciate you!

@johnudontknow2805 Ай бұрын

This is all true but anything your selling always goes off market selling price. Example you cant sell a snake for 1000 when it can be found way less in price...Your battle is the market.

@karklive4677 2 жыл бұрын

Lovely video

@LeviathanSnakes 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much and thank you for watching!

@xChikyx Жыл бұрын

some numbers on the screen would have been really useful

@Cathan424 2 жыл бұрын

For a female from hatchling to bredder

@1madmike813 2 ай бұрын

And only produce the amount you personally can sell in a year or 2

@Ibaneddie76 2 жыл бұрын

I meant (seeing) people cut eggs in the previous comment!

@jack-inkfliktedexotics2051 2 жыл бұрын

2 if you have the right ones.

@LeviathanSnakes 2 жыл бұрын

Too true! We might be close to that next season when we pair our Sunset male to our Super Banana Sunset female!

@thisislargemouth5566 Жыл бұрын

50k sales, 65k overhead. Welcome to ball pythons. 😂😂

@Marlon_Melmaanimals 2 жыл бұрын

Very good video

@LeviathanSnakes 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

@dantecalvillo6902 Жыл бұрын

How do u know when to breed and how old can they be to be ready to breed

@LeviathanSnakes Жыл бұрын

We have an ultrasound so we can identify when a female is building follicles and we pair when a female is at least 1500 grams and around 2 years old

@pauledwards5607 Жыл бұрын

Of course there is a correlation between the amount you paid for the original breeders and the average sales price per animal you sell...you are using $300 average selling price but that is driven by the value of the parents. I'm thinking if you averaged $1000 per breeding specimen (so 5.220 would be $25,000) then your average sale per baby sold would be closer to $500 each...yes? Instead of $300. I see people making the mistake of not spending enough money up front on their breeders and expecting to make good money. Cheap snakes produce more cheap snakes and the market is full of cheap ball pythons...2, $200 snakes bred together, will not produce expensive animals. They will produce $50-350 animals...any thoughts?

@LeviathanSnakes Жыл бұрын

Completely agree. The potential value of offspring can be so hard to estimate and I agree that it isn’t a direct 1 to 1 kind of thing. For simplicity we went with the price of the parents makes the average price of the babies but there is definitely way more nuance than that

@khmerViper Жыл бұрын

I don’t see anyone doing the real math. Like what and do figure out what I keep as profit and what goes back in the business? I’m starting small going crazy. Just getting started I know it’s get rich over night busses.

@LeviathanSnakes Жыл бұрын

We thought about going for the profit angle, but rodent prices change so much for each individual person and area that we didn’t find the work required to do the research correctly would be worth the additional layer of specificity. From a high level, you would have a higher profit margin with the investment level animals vs the pet animals since you have a smaller number of animals that you have to care for. Just add the costs you would spend on rodents and electricity to what we stated as the equipment expenses and you will have a solid profit estimate once you subtract total expense from revenue

@hollygreen72 Жыл бұрын

The $17,000 for the Investment breeder snakes, is that based on buying them as juveniles?

@LeviathanSnakes Жыл бұрын

It has been a bit since I recorded the video, but if i remember correctly I think the price thresholds were averages and didn’t take age into consideration If someone picked up an 4 adult Clown/het clown females for roughly $1k each and a $6k powerhouse male hatchling, you could make 4 clutches of really amazing animals in much less time than buying all hatchlings and growing them all up.

@EmpressOfExile206 11 ай бұрын

Yikes... Your #'s are *_way off_* seeing as how you didn't take into account the most basic factors in calculating annual profit such as *_overhead‼️_* If you sell _exactly_ $50k in snakes over the year, you did *_not_* make $50k... You made $50k - [yearly expenses that went into making those snakes] 💯 After factoring in $ spent on breeders, enclosures, food, staff, marketing, etc. you're going to need to sell at *_double_* the #"s you threw out 😂

@LeviathanSnakes 11 ай бұрын

You pretty clearly didn’t watch the whole video as we cover expenses in it lol

@cjb1957 2 жыл бұрын

These snakes are an invasive species that is getting out of control. Why TF would we be breeding them???

@LeviathanSnakes 2 жыл бұрын

Ball pythons are not invasive anywhere in The United States so this comment is just ignorant. Some believe Burmese pythons are invasive to South Florida but just because Burmese pythons and ball pythons are both snakes, doesn’t mean they are the same thing. I’m going to leave the original comment up, just so other people can see this response to it.

@strongtv_creator Жыл бұрын

@@LeviathanSnakes bro you snapped !! Your killing it. Do what you love and make your coin.

@JaeSleepywood Жыл бұрын

I started with a breeder mindset but transitioned to an investment mentality so my statistic is right between the two. 2.8 16,750 7015 ✅ 1065 is my last expense First season 2023 🤞

@LeviathanSnakes Жыл бұрын

Can’t wait to see what you do! 2023 is gonna be awesome!