Yes, on two shipments from Vietnam I located over a dozen specimens in a shipment of several hundred Acanthosaura. I don't see them as just agamids, but the demand for Acanthosaura is not anything close to $500.00 each, maybe $125.00-$150.00 at the extreme high end. I work with a huge variety of agmids and bred most of the species I keep (Draco, Gonocephalus, Lophognathus, Agama, Dendragama, Calotes, Acanthosaura, and Bronchocela ). As for $500.00 ball pythons, there is something called demand. As for finding less and less lizards in Vietnam, not to sure about that. Vietnam exporters have never had a problems collecting large amounts of various lizards.

I've been bale to tell the various species apart for several years, why? Well, I've always located my resources in various herpetological journals, including the orginal descriptions and keys. Most hobbyists resort to finding their information online in a simply aquired and read format.

What I find funny is you have high hopes to sell this species, but someone tell me this, who is willing to spend $500.00 on this agamid? There needs to be a market first.

>>I know exactly how you feel, dam I feel the same way when someone pays $500 and more for ball pythons, I guess we both will get over this sometime?
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>>Vietnam reptiles are getting rare, fauna conservation is the last priority for these fine peoples, most of there water ways are contaminated sins the war, all lizards are considered food, we keep importing numbers of cheep lizards, yet these peoples are finding it more difficult to get.
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>>This alone makes them valuable to me, really I don’t care if you see them as just agamas, import them and sale them cheep if you like, as for me my plan is set and they will be expensive no dough.
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>>I needed to fund an expedition to get this specie, because no exporters could get them, I don’t know witch species you are talking about, but I dough it's nataliae, heck few months ago keepers could not tell a capra from coronata, but yet you tell me you got these in the pass? Now this I find funny.
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Justyn Miller
Intense Herpetoculture
www.IntenseHerp.com

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