Feeders!

[d_virginiana]

I made a wonderful discovery today! Not five minutes from my apartment at school there is a reptile and fish specialty store. Not only do they have some very nice animals in there (like a giant red-tail boa, a golden tegu, and a west-african bush viper as soon as you walk in the door) in *very* nice enclosures, they sell f/t feeders!

This is so lucky! No shipping on pinkies at a decent price!!!

[katach]

Woohoo!

[Kantar]

how much do you pay?
around here I can get pinkies for .99, fuzzies for 1.20 and rat pinkies for 1.39

it adds up pretty quick

[ConcinusMan]

That's about the best you're going to do, unless you buy in bulk. Those prices aren't bad. But I hear you, it is expensive. Thats the main reason I don't feed my snakes on just rodents. Really, a large meal of them every fourth feeding or so is enough rodents. Rest of the time they get fish, worms, slugs, etc.

[kibakiba]

I would love a tegu. My boyfriend and I wanted to get one when we lived together (long way off) and have him build a large enclosure for it. Too bad they're illegal where he lives.

[d_virginiana]

I forget exactly how much they were, but it's wayyy cheaper than having them shipped since my snakes eat only 2-3 mice per week with the rest being worms and fish.

I love tegus too. If I got one, I'd want either a red or b/w colombian tegu though. I was seriously impressed with it's enclosure at that place though! It's probably the only store I've ever been in where all the animals' display cages looked like setups that they could permanently live in. I'm looking into applying for a job there :D

[RedSidedSPR]

Wow! That sounds like a really nice store for once!

[kibakiba]

I want a blue one or a b/w. Goldens are also very beautiful. I kind of like the idea of having a whole room designed just for a tegu, just so he wouldn't have to be locked up in the cage at all times... Probably a bit too costly, though.

[d_virginiana]

I've toyed with similar ideas before for either turtles/tortoises or large lizards.. I know a guy who kind of did that for his iguana, but he was in the Orlando area at the time, so it wasn't hard to meet the temp/light requirements in a well lit room, and it had a cage for night-time.