I have had such a HORRIBLE week. Let me first start out by saying that I used to think that breeders that sell their geckos at "inflated" prices were being unfair to the young herpers that just wanted to have a reptile that is easy to take care of. After this weekend i now realize that their is great logic in keeping prices high...the more you pay for something the better you will take care of it. Here's my story...This is my first year of breeding and i have been selling my little guys through my local weekly advertising flier that offers free advertising for all items under $25. Being Albino Hets and very healthy i figured it was a VERY fair price for such an animal. I now regret putting them in there at all due to some of the responses i got and question i received from people who already OWN Leos and various other reptiles:



1. "The males have the big tails and the females have the skinny tails"



2. "I've been feeding mine a steady diet of Waxworms"



3. "I couldn't get the Tempertures right, so i decided to use a heat rock"



4. "I talked to a snake breeder friend of mine. He doesnt breed geckos but said i should start feeding my leopard geckos redworms"



5. "Is breeding geckos anything like breeding dogs"



6. "Holy Sh**, if mine get that big im going to get rid of them"



I offered to go to one womans house to sex her geckos. I get there and she has about 75 full sized crickets wandering around the cage and a bowl of dead mealworms for three juvenile leos. They looked completely miserable, totally broke my heart.



I have sold my geckos through the paper earlier this year with no problem, but this week was particularly bad. I will never do it again. So to all breeders who take crap for selling geckos a higher prices, stand strong, youre helping to make the herp industry a better place.



P.S. I DID sell one gecko to a very nice family who was willing to learn before owning a gecko, the rest I refused to sell to

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• A Must Read Story (long but well worth it) - kurt18, Fri Nov 7 14:03:37 2003
• RE: A Must Read Story (long but well worth it) - buffysmom, Fri Nov 7 15:09:34 2003
• well - cercis, Fri Nov 7 15:25:44 2003
• I agree - armiyana, Sat Nov 8 01:11:54 2003
• Yeah, it's unfortunate. But I do agree with your point. n/p - xelda, Fri Nov 7 23:46:08 2003