Cresteds @ PetCo?!?!

[aimee_s]

Hello,

I was browsing through forums online because I got bored. Someone posted that Crested Geckos are starting to be sold at PetCo for $35 because they made a deal with Sandfire Ranch. Someone else replied and said he works at PetCo and they sell Cresteds there for $70. When did this start happening? The PetCos near my house (in San Francisco) only sell two different typse of geckos: leopard geckos & house geckos.

Is this all true? When are they going to sell them at all of their stores?

Thanks for the help!

[aimEe]

 

[finsnthings]

cresteds @ petco

I live in Memphis, Tn and I was in our petco here tonight and they do have the crested geckos also african fat tails and about 3 other morphs of geckos. They were selling these anywhere from 24.99 to 79.99. I could hardly beleive it. The employees said that all of the petcos should be stocking them in the next couple of months.

Tori

 

[aimee_s]

Re: cresteds @ petco

hi tori,

thanks for the reply! i spoke with the person i got the info from, and apparently i had misunderstood. supposedly, petco gets them for $35 and then sells them for around $59.99 - $79.99. but i am amazed that you were able to find a petco near you that sold afts and cresteds for those prices. also, thank you for asking one of the employees about AFTs and cresteds at other petcos. so far, the ones over here don't have them... but i'll be looking out for them in the next few months. take care and thanks again tori!

[aimEe]

 

[Dan's_herps]

hi amiee, i live in san francisco also, petco by me dosn't sell cresteds, they sell skunk, house, tokay, lepard and a few others but i am interested in a crested and if they did sell them for 30, i would have one
if you really want to just go down to east bay vivarium, thats were i do most of my shopping, when i turn 15 i hope to get a job there but thats were i got all my reptiles and aracnids
hope this helps any
Dan

 

[Mark and Aimee]

The $49.99 Crested Gecko PALS special ended yesterday. Some stores may keep them on special, but only if they do not plan on keeping Cresteds on hand.

Regular price will be $69.99, same as Bearded Dragons.

Sandfire Dragon Ranch DID supply the first four Cresteds to most Petcos, although some stores may be ordering from wholesalers such as Lasco or Mid America Reptiles (same place). The quality of the Cresteds from Sandfire is obviously going to be MUCH higher - so ASK before purchasing your Cresteds.

 

[Eric Klees]

All of the PetCo's and PetSmarts got alot of thier inital cresteds from Sandfire and still do to a point but its all thier plain colored ones and mostly males. you wont find any real quality (as in color) from the PetCo's and PetSmarts. You still need to get those types from breeders that are selectively breeding thier cresteds out for color. The Quality of animal is great (when it leaves Sandfire) but walk into alot of PetSmarts and youll find that alot of them do not house them correctly (mixed with other geckos with high temps, wrong substrate ie...) So I would be leary of "quality of animal" once its been out of sandfires care after a week.

I know Allen alittle and also know Paul some who is the retail sales rep on the east coast for Sandfire and they are sexing the cresteds fairly accurately with a eye glass (like a jewlers glass) to see the femoral pores on cresties as young as about 10-12 weeks maybe alittle more.

Becasue they produce so many (as many as 50 a day hatch though not everyday) its a great outsource of thier surplus

 

[Eric Klees]

and they will get rid of mostly males because of this its unlikely to see many females in the PetSmarts or PetCo's