Hognose cost?

[rattus knits]

Hello,
So I was originally going to be keeping a pair of garters but after some discussion with my friend (she had bought some to breed herself and had offered me a pair) she has taken them as well to get them feeding and see how they are as breeders since she has much more experience with snakes than me. But I do still want a snake, but I was thinking something a bit easier to care for while I wait for next garter breeding season to see the results. Now don't get me wrong, I've wanted a hognose prior to the garters but I want the hognose as just a snake pet where as the garters were going to be pet/breeders, I love all my animals and want to provide the best care for them, but for right now it just seemed garters were a bit beyond what I can properly provide the best care for. So my friend suggested hognose which are similar in some ways but are much more docile and will take readily to mice instead of the varied diet of garters which seems much more appealing to me. I've been doing a lot of research on these guys for feeling/enclosures/and other care requirements but one thing that varies ALOT is price. My local pet shop sells a normal western hog for $125, is that a decent price? I know they over price some of their other snakes, but this seems to match with other prices I've seen and this would eliminate shipping cost/risk during shipping. So does this seem reasonable? They sell their albinos $300 <not looking to get an albino since I like the rattler like look of the normal, but just wondering about that price as well> is that abnormal? Thanks!

[FWK]

I don't know about the albinos price but I paid $100 plus shipping for my Western Hognose, $125 sounds good to me.

[smy_749]

Not a good price. Very expensive. Both the albino and the normal

[FWK]

wut you telling me I got ripped off?! I should mention that she is 100% het albino, but I have no intention of breeding her so it doesn't really matter lol. I'll rephrase, if my local pet shop (as in the locally owned store, not petsmart) had a Western Hog I wanted in stock for $125 I'd buy it.

[Snakeguy5]

Originally Posted by rattus knits

Hello,
My local pet shop sells a normal western hog for $125, is that a decent price? I know they over price some of their other snakes, but this seems to match with other prices I've seen and this would eliminate shipping cost/risk during shipping. So does this seem reasonable? They sell their albinos $300 <not looking to get an albino since I like the rattler like look of the normal, but just wondering about that price as well> is that abnormal? Thanks!

For the normal that is a good price. Normals are around $65-$80 but if you bought one online and had it shipped, you would pay around $50 for shipping so you would would end up paying about the same either way.

Unless the albino is a very high red, it is overpriced.

[rattus knits]

i kinda figured the albino was expensive, especially since I would assume it wouldn't be that hard to breed more albinos (obviously assuming you had two or more albinos already) were as other morphs would be harder to get because of the variations in patterning and coloration even with two snakes breeding of the same morph.

The ones they are selling are pretty small, a few inches to about maybe half a foot I think, if they are eating well regardless of size and appear healthy is there any recommendations for size?

[rattus knits]

i ended up getting a little male yesterday^^ will post pics once he gets used to his new home!

[Joshchimera]

Originally Posted by rattus knits

i ended up getting a little male yesterday^^ will post pics once he gets used to his new home!

Congrats!