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Is what a person is willing to pay for it.
I remember when many species were less than 50$. I also remember when P mets were first hatched here, and they were 499.00$ a sling too. i waited many decades for them to be affordable for me. Their sacs were living gold back then, that was in the late 1990's if I recall. Kelly Swift was the first in the USA to crack the code to breed them.
Then I remember I. mira being another "rare", super pricey T, selling for 500$. I waited "eons", picked up a sling for 40$ turned out to be female- lucky me- one and done.
Over time I've seen common species double in price, some more so, not all of them, but many. Shipping costs have increased for sure. Beyond that I can't say why costs have increased so much for species that are bred here in the USA that are commonly bred etc- it's not the part of the hobby I research too often. Again, not all have increased, but most have.
Every so often I go out on the net to see what's the latest HIGH prices. I've seen prices 300-500$ for more than quite a few years unfortunately.
However, today takes the cake. There's someone out there selling a T for 10,000$, that's ridiculous to me.They claim it's captive bred too, and there are only 20 in the USA supposedly. I don't know how hard it was to breed this specimen (assuming that info is accurate) or the original costs of removing this species from the wild- that's an entirely different, and SHORT story.
I'd never drop that much on any animal.
It's a pretty T for sure. The specimen looks quite similar to Hapalopus formosus (formerly Hapalopus sp. Colombia Large).
I was talking with a scientist and there's a 7" species that looks like H. formosus. It's not in the hobby, and maybe never will be as no one knows about it but scientists. I hope not it doesn't enter the hobby because I'm sure it will be $15,000
I remember when many species were less than 50$. I also remember when P mets were first hatched here, and they were 499.00$ a sling too. i waited many decades for them to be affordable for me. Their sacs were living gold back then, that was in the late 1990's if I recall. Kelly Swift was the first in the USA to crack the code to breed them.
Then I remember I. mira being another "rare", super pricey T, selling for 500$. I waited "eons", picked up a sling for 40$ turned out to be female- lucky me- one and done.
Over time I've seen common species double in price, some more so, not all of them, but many. Shipping costs have increased for sure. Beyond that I can't say why costs have increased so much for species that are bred here in the USA that are commonly bred etc- it's not the part of the hobby I research too often. Again, not all have increased, but most have.
Every so often I go out on the net to see what's the latest HIGH prices. I've seen prices 300-500$ for more than quite a few years unfortunately.
However, today takes the cake. There's someone out there selling a T for 10,000$, that's ridiculous to me.They claim it's captive bred too, and there are only 20 in the USA supposedly. I don't know how hard it was to breed this specimen (assuming that info is accurate) or the original costs of removing this species from the wild- that's an entirely different, and SHORT story.
I'd never drop that much on any animal.
It's a pretty T for sure. The specimen looks quite similar to Hapalopus formosus (formerly Hapalopus sp. Colombia Large).
I was talking with a scientist and there's a 7" species that looks like H. formosus. It's not in the hobby, and maybe never will be as no one knows about it but scientists. I hope not it doesn't enter the hobby because I'm sure it will be $15,000
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96% of my Ts were from online.