Thanks for the kind words. I wish I could help you, but to be totally honest, I try to hang onto almost every female that I can, unless they just don't fit into any of my projects...which isn't very often.
Honestly, it's pretty tough to start a decent Crested collection by buying sexable juvies or adults. Everyone wants to produce Cresteds, so everyone wants females. If you do the math, you can produce around 12 babies per female per year, so it's simply not worth selling a female...even if you get a few hundred dollars for it.
The easiest and least expensive way to go is to buy nice, unsexed babies and raise them up. Many people are afraid that they'll get too many males that way, but that's not usually the case. My entire collection started with mostly unsexed babies. By the time the first 7 or 8 Cresteds were sexable, I had only ended up with one male. Needless to say, that poor guy put in some serious work. To this day, I've got virgin females that weigh 40 grams (very ready to breed) because I don't have the right males to breed them with. In fact, really good looking male Cresteds are very tough to come by, due to the fact that a male can pass on his genes to 100 or so babies per year, if someone wanted to do that.
>>anthony...your lizards are amazing. im having the worst time getting a female. do you have any at all for sale? at the reptile show in raleigh i thought i would find a crested female easier than uroplatus females, but i was very wrong. i left the show empty handed as far as my female crested goes, but i got an unsexed juv instead. hes already looking like hes gonna be a male. thats 3 juvs ive bought that all ended up male. HELP!
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Anthony Caponetto
www.ACreptiles.com
