Just sold my 2 snakes to a collector. He liked the 14 foot big fella, and the 7 foot brother. Nasty bastards they were. Built into their genes ofcourse.
Big $$$ in buying n selling snakes. The snake collecting/industry in Australia is just like the pinball industry, snake forums etc etc.

But the buzz for collectors in Australia is to collect illegal highly venomous snakes that are illegal to keep.

Every now n again, a forum member on the snake forum just disappears out of sight for 3 or 6 months.
Finally it gets reported back to the forum that the person died playing with one of their highly prized XYZ illegal highly deadly snake.

But people are buying, selling n trading snakes on the snake forums for BNIB pinball prices.

I caught a special green tree snake once, sold it to a fellow who had a special licence for 4 grand.

The trick was not getting bitten to collect on the catch. First n last, cause it almost bit me before I bagged it.

Snakes in the wild are pretty farking scary. Human instinct to shit yaself in two seconds because if anything in the wild can scare you instantly, its an Australian venomous snake.

(Can u burn the dead animal in a bonfire - get a permit - if u cant dig a hole ??).

Sorry for ya loss.