Mountain lizard question.

[totheend]

Originally Posted by EmbraceCalamity

...All herps started out WC (with maybe a few hybrid exceptions). Eventually, as more are produced, more and more of the population is CB until it's primarily or entirely so.

~Maggot

The problem is no one wants to invest in breeding something that is sooo cheap as a wild caught. People don't breed anoles or house geckos or MHD because it isn't worth it ... $$. So some things just remain wild caught.

[poison123]

Originally Posted by totheend

The problem is no one wants to invest in breeding something that is sooo cheap as a wild caught. People don't breed anoles or house geckos or MHD because it isn't worth it ... $$. So some things just remain wild caught.

If somebody is breeding reptiles it should be for the passion not the profit. If there only breeding for the profit then there in the wrong hobby. Theres no profit in breeding reptiles unless you breeding high end morphs.

[totheend]

Originally Posted by poison123

If somebody is breeding reptiles it should be for the passion not the profit. If there only breeding for the profit then there in the wrong hobby. Theres no profit in breeding reptiles unless you breeding high end morphs.

I agree, however I was just saying that is how it is.

[EmbraceCalamity]

Originally Posted by totheend

The problem is no one wants to invest in breeding something that is sooo cheap as a wild caught. People don't breed anoles or house geckos or MHD because it isn't worth it ... $$. So some things just remain wild caught.

It probably depends more on the interest the particular species has in the hobby and the availability of WC specimens. As I recall, it wasn't long ago that cresties were pretty rare and almost entirely WC, and now there are even too many of CBs and almost no WCs (if any at all).

~Maggot

[totheend]

Originally Posted by EmbraceCalamity

It probably depends more on the interest the particular species has in the hobby and the availability of WC specimens. As I recall, it wasn't long ago that cresties were pretty rare and almost entirely WC, and now there are even too many of CBs and almost no WCs (if any at all).



~Maggot

Hey, I agree 100%! I am just stating what seems to be true. Cresties were bred though because there was money to be made! They were expensive creatures many years ago. But a CB house gecko won't be worth anything. Just the reality of it.

Ooops I replied to the post that was sent to my email!! Either way...it's about the $$

[EmbraceCalamity]

Originally Posted by totheend

Hey, I agree 100%! I am just stating what seems to be true. Cresties were bred though because there was money to be made! They were expensive creatures many years ago. But a CB house gecko won't be worth anything. Just the reality of it.

Ooops I replied to the post that was sent to my email!! Either way...it's about the $$

I'm not really into breeding things because I feel like it's usually unecessary, but someday, I'd like to get to breed something that's not very common in the hobby, like the Australian thorny devil.



Would be epic.

~Maggot