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Old 01-21-13, 10:10 PM   #1
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Arrow What's The Best Deal?

Over the past couple of years I've been pretty lucky with my reptiles being bought for pretty good prices. I'm curious to see what other people have "scored" for a good price/deal on their reptiles or anything else...

My best deals:

-Pair of Pewter BP's for $400
At the time females went for around $1,000, and males around $800. They were pretty small for being 3 months old at the time and have been growing slowly, but are very healthy and constantly eat even though they were originally fed live when I found them. The female is growing faster and lightening up with age. I look forward to breeding her in the future.

-Lesser Male for $80
I've noticed that they usually go around $200 here for a male. The past owner was so terrified of this little guy that he couldn't even sleep. It was easy to believe since his cage was filled with poop and excrement, and was really wet when we got him with the cage. Although he fed him all the time on live food making him a healthy and thick boy for a 4 month old. Glad I got him off his hands though!

I'm hoping these prices aren't too good to be true, but so far these guys have been amazing.
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Re: What's The Best Deal?

-Albino Striped California Kingsnake (plus the tank she was in, two hides, water bowl, and UTH) for $65
The previous owner got her from a reptile show, but I saw the same morph online for $125. The girl took decent care of her, but she got a ball python and decided she liked its calmness better than the feistier king.
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The past owner was so terrified of this little guy that he couldn't even sleep.
...Wut? XD

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Old 01-21-13, 10:53 PM   #3
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Re: What's The Best Deal?

A male Morelia carinata - Rough scaled python for a trio of hatchling Strophurus taenicauda - Goldentailed geckos.

I also just got offered a pair of Antaresia stimsoni stimsoni - Weatbelt Stimsons pythons for $0 last night from a mate.
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My best deal so far.
1 female adult beardie with a 110gal with 5 dome lights a flouresent with bulb ,a bunch of decor , bag of fake plants,3 bowls ,2 cricket keepers, a couple big spray bottles, and a few of those flex vines all for ......$0. And a promise to take good care of Dex.
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Re: What's The Best Deal?

I've recently got into larger snakes and a disabled guy I met was interested in snakes. I gave him a full set up 40 gallon breeder with clips, $20 habba hut, exo terra $30 water bowl, $30 heating pad, two large branches that the snake seems to like and a pastel ball python for $90.
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My best deal so far.
1 female adult beardie with a 110gal with 5 dome lights a flouresent with bulb ,a bunch of decor , bag of fake plants,3 bowls ,2 cricket keepers, a couple big spray bottles, and a few of those flex vines all for ......$0. And a promise to take good care of Dex.
That's really nice of whoever. (When I was younger and had a beardie, I gave up everything for free, though it was just a baby and I was just a kid, so it wasn't all of that good stuff.) Your deal likely tops anyone else's, so we can probably all give up now.

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Re: What's The Best Deal?

I just solidified a deal on a female hypo blood breeder for free.......
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a week ago a friend of mine gifted me a yellow tail cribo for a belated christmas gift
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Re: What's The Best Deal?

I have recieved an adult albino cornsnake with everything in recent memory and then turned everything over to someone who is really into cornsnakes for nothing as well.

I once gave a pair of really rare geckos away to someone who had more time than I did for cricket eaters. Easily 600 bucks worth of lizards.
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My best was a 4-5ft long albino ratsnake for the price of the gas needed to drive out to pick him up and bring him home.
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-Albino Striped California Kingsnake (plus the tank she was in, two hides, water bowl, and UTH) for $65
The previous owner got her from a reptile show, but I saw the same morph online for $125. The girl took decent care of her, but she got a ball python and decided she liked its calmness better than the feistier king....Wut? XD

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That's pretty good. It is always a nice bonus to get accessories with your new friend

And yes, the guy originally got him from a breeder friend of his for free but was too afraid of it to hold it or anything. Good deal for him but the fear doesn't exactly make it the best :P
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A male Morelia carinata - Rough scaled python for a trio of hatchling Strophurus taenicauda - Goldentailed geckos.

I also just got offered a pair of Antaresia stimsoni stimsoni - Weatbelt Stimsons pythons for $0 last night from a mate.
A pair for free? That's pretty nice, I'm jealous! I've recently looked them up and did some research, they look nice and contrasted. I hope you take the offer!
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My best deal so far.
1 female adult beardie with a 110gal with 5 dome lights a flouresent with bulb ,a bunch of decor , bag of fake plants,3 bowls ,2 cricket keepers, a couple big spray bottles, and a few of those flex vines all for ......$0. And a promise to take good care of Dex.
I must agree with EmbraceCalamity, this is a pretty sweet deal!
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I just solidified a deal on a female hypo blood breeder for free.......
Can't complain about that, very nice!
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I have recieved an adult albino cornsnake with everything in recent memory and then turned everything over to someone who is really into cornsnakes for nothing as well.

I once gave a pair of really rare geckos away to someone who had more time than I did for cricket eaters. Easily 600 bucks worth of lizards.
Wow, that's nice of you to do the same to another person. And the geckos too, I wish I was the receiver :P What kind of Geckos were they?
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