How much have you put into your collection?

[jeepinwu2]

I'm right around $1000 including supplies/feeders 120+ T's, lobster and hisser colony.

 

[the nature boy]

I'm selling my body. So far not enough takers...

--the nature boy

p.s. at least PZB tips well.

 

[betuana]

I've spent somewhere around $750 or so in the past 6-7 months! I try NOT to keep track of numbers like that - scary!!

For 23 (or maybe 24 if I caught the hint on the incoming kids correctly... ), tarantulas (mostly slings and juvies), shipping, cages, substrate, hides, water bowls, fake plants, crickets, roach colony setup and roaches, tools, water bottles, etc.

I have promised myself that I'm cutting myself off until my birthday unless a killer deal (and I've outlined to myself exactly WHAT killer deals count as) appears before then...but then again, I had also promised myself I was only getting one T every 6 months, and nothing but the docile species for at least 3 years....that went well (I only got my first T in May...and have 2 haplos, an OBT, and a Pokie...so much for 1 every 6 months and docile only! Love the aggro ones though, they crack me up.)

I'm selling my body. So far not enough takers...

--the nature boy

p.s. at least PZB tips well.

ROFL!

Sorry NB, you live a few hours too far away. High gas prices, poor college student and all that. :razz:

 

[recluse]

I'm right around $1000 including supplies/feeders 120+ T's, lobster and hisser colony.

How many of your 120+ T's are of the same species? Yeah........... I am getting competitive.

 

[Talkenlate04]

i payed 350.00-400.00$ on mature males a week at one point thats why i let my M Balfouri and P metallica go if you had to guess what would be a range on what you have spent i am thinking a lot with a collection like yours

If I had to guess, $30,000-$50,000. But that is over all my time in the hobby.

 

[somethingbig]

If I had to guess, $30,000-$50,000. But that is over all my time in the hobby.

WOW!! thanks for making me feel inadequate. ;P i'm sitting at about $200...

 

[Talkenlate04]

WOW!! thanks for making me feel inadequate. ;P i'm sitting at about $200...

Well I got my first T 17 years ago, and started buying them myself a few years after that. So all that is spread out. It's not like I spent all that in one or two years.

 

[Alex080]

If I had to guess, $30,000-$50,000. But that is over all my time in the hobby.

Damn im getting there i tell myself no but i do it anyway

 

[barabootom]

I spent a lot many years ago but I have about $500 invested right now. Over my life I've spent maybe 3-4 thousand. I think I've controlled myself quite well after reading a few of these posts. I can certainly understand when I see the bigger numbers though. There's a lot of nice stuff available.

 

[fartkowski]

I could probably buy a small car Seriously

 

[Spyder 1.0]

there is no limit to my pets. money wise... There is however, only a space limit

 

[Moltar]

My initial thought was maybe $1000 but after a some quick mental calculations I realize it's probably closer to $2000. Maybe another $500-$800 for A few aquariums and exoterras, cork, grapewood, substrate, etc etc. Most of my enclosures are cheapo. I only have 4 that cost more than $20 so often the substrate and decorations run higher than the enclosure itself.

 

[DDaake]

Up untill ~7yrs ago I was easily spending $2-$3k/yr on frogs, chams, colubrids, geckos, and arachnids. Sold off most after the kids were born but now it's strictly t's. I've probably only spent 5-600 in the last year rebuilding my t collection. T's are relatively inexpensive to care for, so the wife don't frown as much. It also helped I picked up a gravid c. crawshayi for $40 and traded most all the slings to help rebuild.Traded almost 200 slings for ~$800 in other sp's. I'd say since I was ~10yrs old I've spent every extra penny I had (+) feeding my passion. It's a sickness I can't help it.......Could easily be over 25-30K.

 

[Oasis Inverts]

WOW!!! It hurts to think about this

Since i've been in the hobby I bet I have spent over $20,000 or more...

And this is just on the Inverts not including my reptiles..

 

[codykrr]

yeah 7 years ago i bred burmese pythons and had about 4 grand in them alone.....not counting the other reptiles i had, monitors, iquana, chamelons and turtles, and since i have been into Ts ive spent around 1500 in just the past year but i dont look at the money it cost just the joy i get of having them....

 

[desertdweller]

I still consider myself a noob to the hobby but in a year's time I alreay spent around USD1500.

Ditto. Least that's what I tell myself. I'm sure it's more.

It's so worth it. No regrets

 

[Scolopendra777]

I would say £4000 quid

 

[ThomasH]

Every extra penny I had went to animals since I was 10. Probably 500-700. It adds up quite quickly. It was all worth it though!
TBH

 

[SteelSpider]

I would say i spent close to 1 g.

 

[Mina]

Oh good god I don't want to think about it.

I agree 100%. I don't want to even think about it.