whats the most expensive lizard and snake?

[Bartman]

What are the most expensive lizard and snakes out there? Tell me the price and exact name if you could :) thx

[Emily-Fisher]

There's a type of iguana... I forget what it's called exactly but I think that there's the word "Island" in it's name and supposedly, this species is worth $5000+.

[chris124578]

I think it the leucistic nile monitor..... I saw some picture of it and it's supposedly the only one known in the world and is worth $1,000,000...

[Solid Snake]

those ball python morphs are like 40,000$. something spyder i forget.

[matrix1829]

p ball python 10 000$ in montreal or a black headed python is about 6000$

[Solid Snake]

i saw an ad on K!ngsnake.com had a solid white nile monitor for 1 million dollars

[Sunrunner]

That solid white or leucistic nile monitor is now $125,000 which i trhink puts it behind the desert-ghost ball python in value thats as far as morphs go. As for non-morph animals i think the most expensive lizard would be the baja island blue iguana which is not even an animal you can buy so it would be the cuban iguana and the most expensive non morph snake would be a boleens python. I think. Also the leucistic spectacled caimen is probably upo there to. Plus Bob Clarks leucistic burm is probably worth a mint.

[Zoe]

Also, there is a difference between what an animal is worth, and the price of an animal. They had that nile monitor up for 1,000,000... doesn't mean it's WORTH 1,000,000 (as it obviously wasn't). Just something to keep in mind; an animal has to be sold at a certain price to be worth that amount of money. I can try and sell a corn snake for 10,000,000,000$.... doesn't mean its the true value.

Zoe

[burmer]

Not sure about the snake but the nile monitor had an asking price of 1,000,000.

[Invictus]

As for snakes, just talk to Corey Woods. He probably has a breeding pair of whatever the most expensive one is :D

[drewlowe]

the most expensive snake or lizard is the ones i really admire and love. LOL i don't know...

[PaulBar]

What about the Tartura Lizard of Tasmania. The nearest closest relative to the Dinosaurs. Surely it would fetch a good price if available.

Paul

[Siretsap]

What about the leucistic ball python? Wasn't it 125 000 us not too long ago for a het?

[Bearded AL]

In my opinion you would probly look to the ball python morphs in the states like the plattys that Ralph Davis has or some of the snakes from Nerd and other top breeders in the states.

[nolagurl]

Originally posted by PaulBar
What about the Tartura Lizard of Tasmania. The nearest closest relative to the Dinosaurs. Surely it would fetch a good price if available.

Paul

Do you mean tuatara? They can be found in New Zealand.

"Tuataras are related to an ancient order of reptiles that died out at least 60 million years ago."

Another interesting note is that they are not lizards!
Check out the June 2003 issue of "Reptiles" Magazine for an article on them and where I got the above quote.

[SCReptiles]

Impressive nolagurl, you seem to be well informed. The tuatara can also live to be over 100 years old. If there reproduction cycle wasn’t so slow, I am certain they would highly demanded herps. To the original question, rarity is the key to holding value. The afore mentioned leucistic Nile may fetch 125k now, but once reproduced that price will greatly decline. Example, albino burms. Once very expensive, now I can get them for $75. In terms of true holding value, I would guess the Komodo Dragon would be the most expensive lizard. On snakes, that would be hard to guess. Far as North American species, I would probably say the Eastern Indigo.

[reverendsterlin]

there are Damon's albino GTP, no idea on value, but I think are insured at $250,000.

[nolagurl]

I recently reread the article SCReptiles. ;-P Another interesting note is that Tuataras don't reach full sexual maturity until they are over 20! In captivity however they reach it a bit earlier, at 14 years of age.