[Precision Geckos]

Where can we get our hands on P. Masobe?

[Riverside Reptiles]

There's no more wild caught import of them here in the US and only a few breeders working with cbb. If you're serious about acquiring some captive bred babies, your best bet would be to import them from Europe.

[Precision Geckos]

Yes I know there is only a few people working with them here and dont want to sell any. So importing from Europe is the best bet hey? Ill look into that, thanks!

[Peter B]

Be warned: most animals offered in europe are wildcaught. Since the habitats they live in differ a lot its difficult to acclimatize them.
I know only a few people in europe who breed very low numbers of them.

Good luck.

[Salzy]

I know of a couple people in the U.S. that are having luck breeding them and will sell them on occasion. However, they can lay quite low and not make it known that they are producing and selling the species. They are hard to come by, and people that are serious about them aren't going to sell them off to just anybody.

[Riverside Reptiles]

Originally Posted by Peter B

Be warned: most animals offered in europe are wildcaught. Since the habitats they live in differ a lot its difficult to acclimatize them.
I know only a few people in europe who breed very low numbers of them.

Good luck.

There's actually been quite good success in breeding captive masobe in Europe. I see them for sale for delivery to HAMM fairly often here in our classifieds (certainly more often than you're going to come across them in the US). One just needs to know who and when to look. And, as Kyle said about the few breeders here in the US, most won't sell to just anyone. Most of the people working with them here in the US, acquired their captive animals from Europe.

[Precision Geckos]

thanks for the info!

[Peter B]

Originally Posted by Riverside Reptiles

There's actually been quite good success in breeding captive masobe in Europe. I see them for sale for delivery to HAMM fairly often here in our classifieds (certainly more often than you're going to come across them in the US). One just needs to know who and when to look. And, as Kyle said about the few breeders here in the US, most won't sell to just anyone. Most of the people working with them here in the US, acquired their captive animals from Europe.

I have to disagree here. I guess about 10 CB animals were offered in western europe in 2011. All the rest is WC. The same counts for let's say U. lineatus: pretty big numbers were offered but with a few exceptions all of them are WC. Even when they are not supposed to enter europe.

[Riverside Reptiles]

We'll, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. We have multiple members here on GU that live in the EU and breed masboe on a fairly regular basis. Mine came from the EU. And most of the others in the US came from EU stock as well. The numbers are certainly not HUGE. You're not going to find huge numbers of them anywhere. But my point remains, if one wants to purchase cbb masobe, they will find purchasing from the EU likely easier than here in the US.

[Peter B]

I agree