python_dan89
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looking forward to buying one of these in the future would be awesome if they dropped under the 1000 mark.
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thats a bit melodramatic isnt it , there will allways be pepole out there who are willing to pay good $ for good quality animals .@ waruikaz, worse for the breeder not the buyer, pretty soon its gonna be at the stage where you keep what you wanna hold back and cull the rest if you can't sell it for 50 bucks. its great that there is so much variety in terms of suppliers but within a couple of seasons everyones gonna be a supplier and then who will you offload your excess to? i saw central beardeds advertised for $20 the other day and thick tailed geckos for $40, i picked up 2 macs and a childreni 18 months old last week for $160 the lot, (bargain!!) but where does that leave our hobby when there is no one left to sell to? will people keep line breeding? will we get to see the awesome colours and patterns that we all know are coming from some of the projects around? or with the sour taste of putting clutch after clutch in the freezer will everyone call it a day?
@ waruikaz, worse for the breeder not the buyer, pretty soon its gonna be at the stage where you keep what you wanna hold back and cull the rest if you can't sell it for 50 bucks. its great that there is so much variety in terms of suppliers but within a couple of seasons everyones gonna be a supplier and then who will you offload your excess to? i saw central beardeds advertised for $20 the other day and thick tailed geckos for $40, i picked up 2 macs and a childreni 18 months old last week for $160 the lot, (bargain!!) but where does that leave our hobby when there is no one left to sell to? will people keep line breeding? will we get to see the awesome colours and patterns that we all know are coming from some of the projects around? or with the sour taste of putting clutch after clutch in the freezer will everyone call it a day?
thats right, people are happy to pay good money for good animals but the supply can't keep up with the demand as far as good animals go, it takes a few seasons to develop anything new, so what happens to all the duds in between? perhaps a bit melo dramatic on my last post but its hard to get a point across with no tone of voice or waving of the arms.......
what species @ zuesowns.
They weren't available ten years ago.
AND! All you need to do is look at pet shop prices to get an idea of what the general public is happy to pay for a reptile. Those prices are still right up there. What we are seeing is that APS is coming to saturation point, we are producing more animals than we can sell to each other.
what species @ zuesowns.
Albino Carpet Python
They weren't available ten years ago.
think he was talking reptile prices across board in general
ect look at roughscales they are now 1k a pair as aposed to the 24k a pair when they first came out less then 5yrs ago
theres a pet shop in perth that has reptiles for sale all of them are in appauling conditions and are housed wrong (despite me having a sitdown with the manager and explaining basic husbandry for the species he had and citeing various books!), they charge the earth for them and the animals themselves are shhhhhithouse condition to the point where they regularly lose animals
example they have had some ackies for the better part of 4 years that still havent sold and wont sell due to the fact they want 450 (used to be 650) each for them and they are skinny and small, theyre colourless due to bad condition and have severe constriction to the point where they are missing most theyre limbs and large section of tail......
most of theyre stock that hasent died they have had since they got theyre licence to sell reptiles thats the better part of 5 years......
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