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I was thinking of breeding small lizards for begginer pets, #1 theyre cheap to buy, #2 i can get them used to handleing before they are bought to create children to pet them. If i were to breed them i would probably only breed a few times with only one pair!I would be careful not to inbreed and sell the lizards only as pets, not feeders, do any of you think this is a good or bad idea?I also respect any of your input for my further learning and commenceing the breeding of beginner lizards!Thanks!

P.S. PLease post good, inexpensive species here 2, Thanks Again!

Ive never bred lizards but will hopefully get a pair from the upcoming reptile show.here are a few species that are inexpensive and are said to be easy to breed

green and brown anoles
leopard gecko normal pahses
the smaller day geckos
crested geckos
gargoyle geckos
bibrons geckos
ocelot or pictus geckos
tropical armadillo lizards
turkish and house geckos

hope this helps and ingo will probably post tonight with some good info
nick

i wonder if there has been anty succesful crossbreeding in geckoes?

I dont know really.i knwo the speckaled kingsnake in OK where I live has cross breeded with the desert king and now their is a mix between the 2.I know people in the reptile buiseness do it with snakes because I have seen milks and kings crossed.but Im still not sure about lizards.Ill have to check up on it and get back to you later
nick

ive just read an article where a lady cross bred an inland bearded dragons with a Ranknin's Dragon, it had pictures, she called it a "Vittikin". I would have to find 2 inexpensive geckoes that are closely related...

well I have heard that you cannot breed leos and fattails so that is out of the question.you might be able to breed some of the house gecko(hemidactylus)species.you might be able to do it with some of the smaller anoles.it would be awseome to do something like that though.
nick

i was thinkin tokays and house geckoes, only size would be a problem...like a hardy, calm, semi-large nice attitude lizard. But i could get a small pain in the butt lizard...but ill try not to...

sounds cool.for some tokay advice ask dakman and antomn for some info on the gecko forum
nick

i doubt it will work. animals will rarely breed out of species, let alone out of genus. are tokays and house geckos in the same genus?
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They're not in the same genus.
There are quite a few kinds of snakes and lizards that can breed within the genus, and in a few special cases outside of it. A suprising number of these crosses produce fertile hybrids. The day gecko and the tokay just isn't going to happen though.
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it wont work. not to mention, why do you want to? your making a lizard mutt... good idea. there is no such thing as an inexpensive herp, they all need some form of heat and light... an expense, caging.... an expense, vet work.... an expense. your not doing anyone a favor in selling cheap herps, that just gives them a reason not to spend money on its needs, cuz they can just buy another instead of giving the original a good life. also, house geckos dont like to be held and would probably get killed by a tokay, or it would just stress and die.

you cant even breed a green anole to a brown and look how closely related they are.
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1.1.0 mali uromastyx
1.1.0 green anole
1.0.0 brown anole
0.0.1 fowlers toad
1.0.0 emperor scorpion
1.0.0 cuban knight anole
1.0.0 ribbon snake(currently escaped)
1.0.0 african clawed frog
1.0.1 green iguana
0.1.0 eastern kingsnake
0.0.3 crayfish
0.0.1 3 lined salamander