Help with morphs/values

[miguel camacho!]

hey guys. i've gotta ask your help, as i took on a leopard gecko collection that a friend had for his children. his children stopped caring for them, so he gave them to me before they suffered too much. i have been successful on fattening most of them up, there is still one that has been up and down in terms of weight.

anyway, i've kept and bred leopard geckos in the past, but i was always totally unaware of the value for certain morphs. the list of what i received is as follows:

1.1 normals
0.4 rainwater blazing (1 with regrown tail, 1 with oddly bulbous regrown tail)
1.1 larger than normal, but not true giants...anyone know what the story might be for these?
0.1 jungle tremper albino
0.1 tremper albino
1.0 tangerine
0.1 lavender
0.1 patternless
0.1 hypo

all are adults or subadults.

i am moving very soon and i'm going to be trying to sell the ones that are fat and healthy, so i would like opinions on what the values for each should be. hopefully i can get pics of them soon, if that helps.

thanks.

 

[acpart]

THere are many variables as to how much you can sell the geckos for. It depends on the market (not that good right now because of the economy), the quality of the geckos (e.g. there are "tangs" that are mostly yellow with an orange cast and others that are deep red. Obviously the deep red ones will go for more), and how well you're known to others. That last one isn't going to get you very far. It seems to me that the rainwater blazings are the most "valuable" but their value is lessened by the regrown tails. There's no way to know whether the large ones are giants without knowing where they came from genetically. I have a 116gram tremper albino who's about 9 1/4" and is not a giant.

The best thing to do is to look at some classifieds (check out kingsnake.com and faunaclassifieds.com for example) and see how much these geckos are going for. I'm a small scale gecko breeder and am selling my geckos for $25 to $45. The $25 ones are high yellow, SHTCT, for example. The $45 ones are super snows. Hybinos, patternless redstripes and good looking Mack snows are in the middle.

Aliza

 

[miguel camacho!]

thanks. i'm really not going for recognition on these sales, and im really not trying to get a huge chunk of money for them. as far as the larger-than-average pair goes, the previous owner specifically told me they were not giants, just albinos that are larger than your average leopard gecko. would $250 for the group be a good price, or would that be asking too much, or would that be selling myself short? would i be better off trying to sell groups by morph? i know the market isn't the greatest now, and really, taking everything into consideration, i would like to get some money back for the money i put into them.

but really, i assume it would be best if i took pics of each individual to determine values, right? i have tried looking for the values on different morphs through ads on various sites, but it seems like everyone is trying to sell the snows, RAPTOR/APTOR, etc...

oh well...hopefully the price i'd be looking for would be considered a bargain by someone out there.

 

[acpart]

$250 for the group seems like a fair price. Maybe you could start with the group price and then break it down into smaller groups if you don't get results, or else phrase you ad that you would be willing to take offers on subsets of the whole group (assuming that you are).

Aliza

 

[Riverside Reptiles]

Mike, you should be able to get $50 a piece for any adult female that's breedable and healthy. I'd split them into a couple groups of 1.3 or 1.4 for easiest sale and offer a discount for multiple groups purchased. Spring is coming up and there's plenty of newbies that would love to pick up an inexpensive group of adults that's ready to start producing right away. I think at $250 for that entire group, you would be selling yourself short.