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Can someone please help me out with price lists for these reptiles? I'm having trouble coming up with constant results.

All have various price ranges. Uros can go for as little as $100 to as much as $300 or more, depending where you are looking. Same with bearded dragons and iguanas. It really depends where you are looking. DIferent areas of Canada also have different prices, depending on availability etc. The best place to get the best prices for the best quality animals is at reptile expos.

I have seen uromastyx mali babies going for about $100-150 at the Missassauga Reptile Expo in Toronto, bearded dragons were anywhere from $40 to $500 depending on color and the particular morph being sold. Normal bearded dragons are much cheaper than high end/color bearded dragons. Iguanas I don't see available to often, so can't give a real good price range on them. I don't recall seeing any for sale at the Toronto Expo at all, though a reptile rescue did have an adult male on display (not for sale though). Reptile rescues and shelters almost always have green iguanas for adoption, though most of these are close to adult or of adult size (4-6' long).

I know the Canadian Kingsnake Classifies have not had much in teh way of lizards listed for some time, so they are not too much help but keep an eye on it, never know what will pop up, especially now spring is here and people breeding will soon have babies available. Up in the Breeders/Dealers/Stores link are listings of many breeders who have various reptiles available. Keep in mind that prices will vary due to several points.

Availability/demand. If availability is low but demand high, the prices will be higher, etc.

olor/pattern morph or phase. Specially bred colors or patterns or locality/natural variations in color/pattern affect price. How difficult it is to create the different colors/patterns coupled with the other price affectors, can greatly alter the price range for them. A high orange low pattern bearded dragon is going to be more expensive than a normal colored bearded dragon.

Sex/Age: in some animals, if there is a greater value in a particular sex (usually the female) the price will of course be higher in females. This seems to have more impact with snakes more than lizards, except when dealing with adult or near adults of some species or if teh ratio of male to female isn't close to 50:50.

Breeders/owners/petstores etc selling the animal may choose what price they want to give for no apparent reason at all. They may decide they want to get the highest profit possible, not caring if it takes them longer to sell etc.

The best thing to do is find the animal you want in the price range you can afford or want to pay, check and make sure the animal is healthy, find out the guarentees (ie guarenteed live shipment, or 24 health guarentee etc), learn about refund policies etc, especially if you are getting the animal shipped. If buying from a petstore, reptile show or from a breeder directly and you are picking up the animal yourself, make sure the lizard is alert, active, moves without any shaking, trembling or odd gaits (other than normal gaits of the animal, some do walk oddly), clean around the vent areas, don't have any noticeable mites/ticks, liquid or foul smelling poops, no discharge around nose, mouth or vent and the cage itself doesn't include any sickly looking lizard and is mostly if not completely clean (beleive me, 9 times out of ten, as soon as you claen the cage, the lizard will poop in it LOL). With some lizards, especially dragons, if kept in groups, tail and toe nips can occur, even with the best preventative methods done by the breeder (short of just housing every baby alone) but make sure the nips don't show any indication of infection, swelling or no blackened tail to toes.