Ok heres my rant, so you want to buy one of these beautiful pieces of yellow soap, shaped like tortoises? Lets say you buy a pair for $4600.00, and it takes about 7 or 8 years to raise to breeding size, if not more. Well why its taking 7 or 8 years to raise, the market is being saturated with these little guys, when you start seeing alb. sucatas for sale by different people like i have. It means more people have them then the public is led to believe. So it goes like this (2010=$2300.00)(2011=$1000.00)(2012=$400.00)(2013=$100.00) lets skip to (2018=$40). So the question is, is it worth the investment? Conspiracy theory or not?
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So you want to buy an albino sulcata?
cyclura28
Apr 01, 2010 10:20 AM
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bigdnutz
Jun 27, 2010 08:29 PM
The biggest problem with this theory is that the vast majority of juveniles sold will never make it to breeding size/age. Look at albino boas/pythons/etc. Many times traits based on simple recessive gene mutations stay in high demand because they are harder to produce, especially compared to co-dominant and other traits. The interesting part about tortoises is that they take a long time to reproduce, thats why you don't see many morphs.
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