Most Expensive Snakes

Most Expensive Snakes

We all know someone who keeps a snake. Perhaps you’ve cringed or watched in morbid fascination as their pet python made a lunchtime snack out of some small, furry creature. Perhaps you are that person gleefully trying to convince your squeamish neighbors to hold your reptilian friend. If so, we’re certain you’d love to know which snakes are the most expensive in the world.

Anyone interested in expensive snakes should know of Bob Clark. He is, after all, responsible for breeding some of the world’s most expensive snakes. In fact, he produced the only known genetic striped ball python. The python gets its name from the wide, black-bordered, yellow stripe along its back. Clark currently sells these expensive ophidians for $5,000 apiece.

World's most expensive snake - striped ball python
A striped ball python

Then, of course, there’s the lavender albino ball python. Another of Clark’s specialties, this red-eyed snake is spotted yellow over a lavender background. It also happens to be the most expensive snake in the world, as prices for just one may reach up to $40,000. This stunning, African-native creature was even touted as the most expensive pet in the world at one point.

World's most expensive snake - lavender albino ball python
A lavender albino ball python

Unfortunately, Bob Clark doesn’t seem to have any lavender albinos for sale in 2008. Currently, his most expensive snake is the leucistic ball python, a pure white snake with black eyes that sells for $15,000.

13 replies on “Most Expensive Snakes”

  1. Love Bob, Met him several times and actually was allowed to hold these precious beauties

  2. Jakk Riot
    says:

    What beautiful, masterful snakes – nature has little ways of peeping through it’s mystique and welcoming all of us to the world, my grandmother in Singapore would love these snakes… on toast

  3. I have a ball python. they are really cool, he bit me though.

  4. So want one of those. Totally worth the money!

  5. biraj kumar sarmah
    says:

    i like to eat snake and i have pet 2 snake

  6. ur cool

  7. i have this A lavender albino ball python in cameroon i seel them very cheap
    you can contact me at……………farm.fish@ymail.com

    1. nice you are coll wanna be girlfriends

  8. snakes i hate them

  9. nice there good

  10. i luv snakes they are so cool!!!!

  11. snakes r my favourite animal but when i went to kent there was a boa constricter on the lose right in the same block as me!

  12. Frankie Huddlestone
    says:

    Hope you manage to recover from the fire bob!! Many commiserations! Worst thing to happen to any breeder!!!