Ok, so you know a little more info , I have been dealing with reptiles for about 10 uears now. I have unpacked thousands of Uroplatus over the years of all kinds from Alluadi, to ebenaui and everything in between.

Anyways, Uroplatus on CITIES does not go into effect till January 2005.

Me and another company are importing the last shipment before this. We are bringing in 200hds of each species. Ebenaui, Fimbriatus, Phantasticus, Henkeli, Sikkorae and all sub species and rare species that are not mentioned(guentheri(sp?), etc)

The common species will be 200 animals of each. The rarely seen species will be alot less.

This does not mean as everyone in the classifieds, etc is implying that after January that no more Uroplatus will be imported. This is only a addition so the trade can be monitored.

A buddy of mine was recently over there and he said all you had to at night was walk around and you can find them like we find anoles here. They were everywhere.

CITIES listing is only to monitor the numbers and set an amount of numbers(usually in the thousands, maybe tens of thousands with Uroplatus) per species an assign a certain number of that to the different exporters. They see who exported the most over the years and allocate them the largest numbers on their quotas.

If they do not fill this quota by sending every single one out over the year, they get it reduced by the number they fell short by. Keeping up? Good.

Now this does not mean that Uroplatus are going to be 100.00 Wholesale, instead of 50 bucks or so retail, they might go up in price 10-15 just because right now the demand is so high for them that that is how the market works.

I hope that this clarifies the questions and concerns some of you had over how expensive they will be, etc.

I for am giving facts that the Uroplatus complex will be reasonabl priced but not in the three digits.

MikeB



p.s. C.B. Babies should be 200.00ea and so, not WC'S!

So buy up some WC'S and breed them.....because one thing is for sure....MADAGASCAR IS EXPECTED TO CLOSE ITS BORDERS COMPLETELY TO THE ANIMAL TRADE BY 2010.
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