what do i do with the babies?

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I've been flipping through here for a while and didn't really see anybody ask the question, once you breed your leos, what do you do with the babies? proper housing and care is obvious, what i really want to know is what is done to sell them because as much of a shame it is, i wouldn't be able to keep all of them :(
 
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You are right..."up to 20" babies (per mother-mating) is alot of mouth to feed just as pets, and only some females get along well enough to share housing....so alot of individual housing to. Most people agree that breeding should be done only if you have the means to find them good homes ahead of time.

Also, you can't sell online for a couple months because they shouldn't be shipped until they weigh atleast 15grams. So be sure you have the housing, heating, supplies, and food to care for "up to 20" babies while you make arrangements to sell or rehome them.

Then comes the hardest part: Selling or re-homing them. It isn't worth the cost of shipping for a "pet-quality" gecko with unknown genetics. So your options are limited: find a local petstore that is allowed&willing to buy them from you dirt-cheap (because they sell them for less than $30) ........or........start posting flyers and internet ads saying "Free to good home...you just have to spend $$ to get a tank/heater/food/hides/supplements/etc".. :O

So if you want to breed, it is best for you (and the future geckos) to get the proper supplies/system and "quality-geckos" so you can have "quality gecko-hatchlings" that people want and are willing to buy (and pay shipping for).
 
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Selling them can be rough no matter the quality if you are an unknown breeder. When shipping coasts are around 50 dollars no will will spend that for a gecko who's retail value is only 50 or so. You can get a table at at a reptile show and try your luck. I've traded geckos to the pet store (a quality family owned one) traded for other reptiles. But make sure you have plenty of room before you breed because you may be stuck with the babies for some time, and at some point you will have to separate them. Also food coasts get high.
 
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I started breeding in 2005 and produced 13 babies which I was able to sell. So far I've sold out by Jan/Feb every year except one when I produced an unexpectedly big number of geckos and it took till May to sell them all (now, in mid-Jan, I have 9 more to go and a reptile show coming up next week). I wrote an article for Gecko Time awhile back about how to sell your geckos:
How to Sell Your Geckos | Gecko Time

Aliza
 
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Boyoyo

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tb144050 said:
You are right..."up to 20" babies (per mother-mating) is alot of mouth to feed just as pets, and only some females get along well enough to share housing....so alot of individual housing to. Most people agree that breeding should be done only if you have the means to find them good homes ahead of time.

Also, you can't sell online for a couple months because they shouldn't be shipped until they weigh atleast 15grams. So be sure you have the housing, heating, supplies, and food to care for "up to 20" babies while you make arrangements to sell or rehome them.

Then comes the hardest part: Selling or re-homing them. It isn't worth the cost of shipping for a "pet-quality" gecko with unknown genetics. So your options are limited: find a local petstore that is allowed&willing to buy them from you dirt-cheap (because they sell them for less than $30) ........or........start posting flyers and internet ads saying "Free to good home...you just have to spend $$ to get a tank/heater/food/hides/supplements/etc".. :O

So if you want to breed, it is best for you (and the future geckos) to get the proper supplies/system and "quality-geckos" so you can have "quality gecko-hatchlings" that people want and are willing to buy (and pay shipping for).
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thank you guys so much!! this also brings up another thought, how is one supposed to find out what's "in"? are you supposed to scan the market and see what seems to be a popular common between breeders? from what i have seen, tangerines and sunglows seem pretty popular...
 
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Boyoyo

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acpart said:
I started breeding in 2005 and produced 13 babies which I was able to sell. So far I've sold out by Jan/Feb every year except one when I produced an unexpectedly big number of geckos and it took till May to sell them all (now, in mid-Jan, I have 9 more to go and a reptile show coming up next week). I wrote an article for Gecko Time awhile back about how to sell your geckos:
How to Sell Your Geckos | Gecko Time

Aliza
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thank you very much, the article was very informative!
 
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Just watch the forums section called "Morphs & Genetics" (or scan it's last month's posts), and you can see what everybody is interested in. :)

Right now, I see alot of people focusing on bringing out colors: w & y; lavenders; stonewash, etc etc...
 
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