How much have you put into your collection?

[matthias]

I'm going to third Talken's statment.
over that last 3 years I've spent atleast $1000 in crickets alone.
When you start counting cages, tubs, substrate, water dishes, racks to hold them all, show fees, and shipping the number is going to be staggering. Lets just say it would be a nice down payment on a house twice as big as what we are in now...

 

[johnharper]

Well over $400 dollars easily.

Regards,
John

 

[IrishPolishman]

LoL, I was wondering if anyone else used the toilet paper roll hides...they're awesome!

 

[IrishPolishman]

I'll say that no matter what, this is an extremely fun but easy and fairly inexpensive hobby. Most of the stuff I use is meant for other things. Cages are fairly cheap to build for yourself and the ts don't ask for a lot in return. I currently have an iguana and it is harder than taking care of 10 ts. I wouldnt trade the money I've spent (which isn't much) or my ts for anything in the world

 

[codykrr]

yeah try having 11 iguanas i had 4 which where my breeders easily reaching 6 foot from head to tail the cages i built to house them was 15 foot wide 12 foot tall and 4 foot deep, that alone cost me 1000 dollars to build not to mention the organic vegis i hAd to by pluse supplements and well then if you have 4burmese pythons that were 16+ foot each and ate 2 rabbits a week each it adds up...needless to say i was spending alot so i sold them all, the monitors were another expensive thi g to keep up and the turtles i had were pretty cheap but still T keeping is nothing compaired to any of that, even with racks, tanks and sub im still making out better than i did with those guys....

 

[ThomasH]

First off Cody, why were you breeding iguanas? [I assume they were Greens.]
Second, Burms don't need to eat two rabbits a week. They don't even need to eat routinely every month. I knew a guy who feed two rabbits every two months and his 'tics and burms were FAT!
Also matthias, time to breed roaches!
TBH

 

[codykrr]

well i bred iguanas for a person who sold them and took them to reptile shows, and yeah they were green, second my pythons where healthy not fat and were always eating on thay schedule for a couple years, and they wernt full grow rabbits at that i always gave them babies and when i first got the iguanas they where "pets" till they started breeding and i just sold em off i couldnt keep all the babies and i didnt want to give up the iguanas that i raised from 12 inches just because they where having babies, needless to say it was alot of money to care for them

 

[ThomasH]

So the pythons weren't fat. They could have been growing at that point. Anyway, people should either not breed iguanas or at least not let the eggs hatch. There are just too dang many in reptile rescues and the glades. It is extremely irresponsible. I don't understand why it is wrong to breed dogs but not frowned upon to breed iguanas. They shouldn't have all been kept together. Any good Iguana keeper knows that they do not do well communally caged in captivity. Thanks though for adding to the hundreds of greens in rescues needing homes today, you are too irresponsible. I honestly can not say that I would trust you with a pet rock.....Sorry.
TBH

 

[Noexcuse4you]

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

Man that's a lot of money. That's like $400 a month for 10 years!

I only have a few thousand in my collection. Most of them are in 1 gallon containers that only cost a couple bucks and I have a roach colony so I haven't bought feeders in years. I try to focus my collection on a couple genuses so I don't get too overwhelmed.

 

[Aschamne]

I don't know about the food and supplies, but I have spent $4100 in spider alone in the last year and a half.

Art

 

[Boanerges]

I've only got a few hundred invested in T's. What costs me the most is feeding my snakes

 

[Anastasia]

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.

17 yrs ago, what you was like 11?
$50,000 that's would be great down payment on a house

 

[flyguycolorado]

Ruff about 275.00 - 400.00 depending if its real value or what i spent on it?

 

[Ether Imp]

~40-50 bucks for 10g terrarium before I knew better..

15 bucks or for enough substrate.

4 bucks per Venti Starbucks cup x 5.

~1 dollar a week for crickets.

$0 spent on the tarantulas themselves.

Maybe 100-150 dollars?

 

[violentblossom]

About $400 - $500.

 

[xhexdx]

I couldn't even say. Thousands of dollars...maybe, at this point, around $10k? Maybe more? I doubt it would be any less, anyway.

 

[KoffinKat138]

close to 1000.00,counting how much i've spent on spiders+cages alone.

 

[Endagr8]

~$1000 for all feeders, spiders, tanks, and accessories.

 

[Avicularia Man]

About $120. That's for the T's, shipping cost, containers, substrate, roaches for breeding, and the crickets each week until the roaches start breeding.

 

[8by8]

hey, an old thread

Since I started collecting T's(3 yrs.) around 2000-3000 on T's,enclosures, substrate, hides, plants,feeders, bark, isopods, and maintaining temps. and humd. in the T room.