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What's the most y'all have ever paid for a gecko?

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this is a question Lucile posted in another thread... i figured i would start a new thread.

the most i have paid is $500
 
$100...

bought a nice jungle albino from Alberto (A&M geckos)...hopefully if I put the right breeding groups together I can make some nice offspring that will have moderate value. I am really not looking to do high end stuff...they become more like $$$ than good pets. Because ya know if I can't sell 'em, I gotta keep 'em!
 
my limit is about $500 because i figure i can make anything that others sell for $500+, with some effort and patience. I don't like buying a high end morph i like making my OWN. much funner that way. and im a tight wad so i am very selective. and it does help that i dont like tremper albinos and dont even breed them. so i could care less about a carrothead carrot feet tangerine albino thats has bright florescent pink and white and is a "giant"
 
I am on the cheap side as well the most I have ever paid is $375. I also believe that I will eventually, through selective breeding have some very high quality geckos. If I had the money and something came along that I had to have I may (probally would) spend more.
 
hey robin was that a shot at me?? i got a good chucle out of it if you did i really like the part about the carrot feet i almost feel off my chair laughing :rofl: :rofl:
 
Man, Gotta love those carrot feet.

The most I've spent is $300, on that CT male from Masterpiece, but in whole at Daytona, I went on a $1200 leo shopping spree.

I tell people how much I spend, and they laugh, but hey, I think its the greatest 300 bucks this stingy guy has ever spent!
 
$100 bucks

We paid $100 for our giant albino from tremper. I imagine it is only a matter of time before we cross that threshold though as I would like to get into snows.

Tony
 
hey robin was that a shot at me??
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no, not a shot at you at all, most everyone here knows how i feel about trempers, i just do not like them and i do not care for some particular breeders business practices whom produce and sell them.
 
400 here !could you honestly say ?

that you dont think this " carrotfoot" is not a gorgeous gecko ? just because of which albino gene was used to create it ??
 
I guess Im somewhere in between everyone $400. I spent $400 on a Tangerine CarrotHead Giant Jungle Tremper Albino. All in all I have spent at least 2500 on all of my leos. I have gotten some GREAT deals and some fair deals as well as a few bad ones but it tilts to the good side so Im happy overall. I know some people dont like Trempers very much but I like them alot I cant wait for the purple eyed Trempers to hit the market I know theyll cost a pretty penny but man they look awsome.
 
i put out 1000-1200 on 3 tangerine males in the past. i don't think i would do it again. but some of them are very pretty. urban and brant lines are very similar, but they come with a higher degree of spotting than the lines with a lot of hine's hypo in them. this is a photo i have stored from after last breeding season. the colors are pretty good for animals that had been breeding for months. there is a normal hine's carrot in there to show the color difference.

my urban groups do not start breeding until august. i have been holding those babies back from last year. i hope to have time to work with them in the spring. my tangerine/carrot projects were a catastophe this year until the last few weeks. i am starting to get a few above average tangs, but zero carrots this year.
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$1200 on one gecko. No I won't tell you which one. It was worth every penny.

I've also spend $800 and $450 on single geckos before.
 
steven are you making fun of me, or are you hiding your prize gecko? i wish i still had the panther chameleon income to buy some expensive leos. i love the stripes hqr is selling.
check out the contrast of these two. the bright male i bought from albey a few years back. i put him in with a group of females in the spring and he dropped his tail in the first 5 minutes; now that was a catastrophe. i have one male that is a complete clone of the father that i have been breeding into the urban line. i will know by xmas if they blend well together
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i appreciate the beauty of a pretty tremper, i just don't care to work with them. there are soo many out there ALMOST everything has been done with them. I figure i will work on the other albino morphs which essentially have been ignored and make what i want.

cody, hybinos yes... bells and working on RW hybinos and tangerine rainwater albinos as well as more tang bells and pattern variations of each.

I got a totally cute bell hybino in the rack right now.... cute as a button. hopefullly ill hatch out at least one more bell hyino this year
 
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