Price of Leopard gecko

Magixs

New member
Hello Forum

What are your thoughts on the price of Leo's? Do you think they've hit a bottom and will stay the same? Or continue to become less?

I live in Australia, so I can't have these geckos. :(
 

acpart

Well-known member
I feel that things have pretty much stabilized at this point. I've run several Gecko Time articles about leopard geckos and the market. The breeders I've asked feel tat they can sell what they produce. I produce about 60 leopard geckos a year. I have 6 left from the 2016 season and they will be gone this week. I think the most important factor in maintaining a decent leopard gecko market is educating customers and potential customers, mostly in terms of using proper husbandry, thinking very carefully before breeding and then doing it in a responsible way (healthy geckos of known genetic background), and, most importantly "you get what you pay for": the $10 teeny gecko has a lot worse chance of reaching adulthood than the $30 well started juvenile.

Aliza
 

Magixs

New member
Thanks for the response! That all makes sense.

Have you bred any of the Nephrurus types? Leopard geckos seem to be the most popular here by far!

Regards
Magixs
 

acpart

Well-known member
Thanks for the response! That all makes sense.

Have you bred any of the Nephrurus types? Leopard geckos seem to be the most popular here by far!

Regards
Magixs

I haven't bred those. This season I'm sticking to : leopard geckos, gargoyle geckos, crested geckos, African fat tails, Coleonyx variegatus, C. elegans and E. hardwickii. I think that will be enough for me!

Aliza
 
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