The Idea keeps growing!!!

[TheWolfmanTom]

Morning All,
Some time ago I had up a post about a Reptile specific pet shop I was planning on.
The idea is still with Me, and I am taking steps to see it bare fruit.
Now I want some feed back. What are some LIZARDS that you as a consumer would like to see???
Keep in mind that dragons, geckos ( leopard and crested) are a given.
I may be in a position to breed almost any lizard I want to carry.
Imagine an entirely captive bred inventory.
So please keep the posts coming. I dont care how odd it seems I want to hear ideas.
Thanks
Tom
TND Dragons.
Maybe TND'S Lizard Lounge......lol

 

[crypticdragons]

Dwarf monitors (such as V. Tristis Tristis and Ackies)
Collared Lizards
Agamid species (Red Headed rock agama, black forest agama)
Sailfin Dragons
Eastern Australian Water dragon (yes they are available in the states)

These are just the ones that I still want in my personal collection lol so a Pet store with them would be worth a trip.

 

[beardie_love]

Uromastyx
Blue Tongue Skink
;D

 

[TheWolfmanTom]

Collards are being worked as we speak..lol
Now sailfins is smething that made me say ohhhhhhhhhhhhh.

 

[staylor]

I would love some golden tail geckos, like what Francis just got. I found some for sale later this year in the states. Oh Iguanas and leaf tail geckos. I know just the normal stuff but those seem to be the ones that interest me the most. Hope this helps

 

[Justus85]

The different variants of Iguana. Something I have never seen in a store is a savannah monitor, I think those are soo cool. I think a big help would be too also carry a wide variety of live feeders, dubia's, crickets, all the worms etc. Easy enough to raise the colonies and people would prolly be willing to pay decently for it.

 

[Red Ink AUS]

Lizards:
Varanids (dwarfs) Tom, as Bri as said. They seem to keep a place in the market. Try and get some of the rarer ones on the markey such as V. gelleni or V. storri. I would avoid the large varanids as the market is already sturated with $50 WC savs. Plus they take up too much room.

BTS are nice easy captives, avoid the Indo varieties and focus on the Northerns from Aus (I can point you to good breeders over there that may be able to give you a hand with a colony). Live bearers so no egg incubation.

Knob-tailed geckos are easy enough to care for and command a good price on the market. Still fairly rare so I'm sure you won't have a shortage of buyers as they seem to be growing in popularity over there.

Strophurus geckos are quite pretty, again still a bit rare in the market and not to difficult to care for and easy to move.

Diplodactylus geckos are also another sought after australian gecko over there. Small easy to care for don't take up much room at all yet command a good price.

Chams are good always popular not too sure about the care but their live bearers so one less thing in the incubator.

Snakes:
There's a massive Morelia market over there, particulary for JCPs and Bredli, Easy snakes to care for and do well in standard 4x2x2, no special requirements in humidity or any other specialised husbandry needs being their Oz natives their tough as nails.

Aspidites are another popular snake species over there (womas and blackheads) again no fuss captives.

I would find the species that are popular yet hard to get and easy to care for first. Keep the over heads low for the first few years and target species that you know will move in the blink of an eye. Avoid an "overly" saturated market with breeders. Avoid species with overly specialised care as you would be spending to much time fixing husbandry rather than focusing on the business. Target species that can live in "rack" systems. I would avoid any aquatic species till you get more established. I would try and keep the proportion of "diurnal' species low for the first few years at least until the business is regularly turning over a healthy profit. The over heads on lighting system and power cost would be lower that way.

Side note start lookingh into alternative lighting systems such as hologens (this will keep the bills down). Safe CFLs for the ones that require UVB. A good supplier of foods, never too early to start looking into this as well as breeding your own to keep overheads down.

Most importantly a secure place to keep all the specimens in. Start designing a large scale reptile room, hatchling racks, incubators etc.. etc...

Well that was a lot of stuff i just wrote up (sorry) I'm fully charged on caffine.

 

[Twobeardieguy]

Again, DOOO ITTTTTTTTTT! I am with you. ;D

 

[ladyknite]

Fire skinks, sun gazers, knobs, water monitors.

Use alot of thought when it comes to the larger lizards. They're cute when they're little..........but when you need an 8 x 8 space for them, they turn into someone else's problem.

 

[ladyknite]

so dear heart.........................what's the word?

 

[beardielover17]

-Frilled Dragons
-Uromastyx
-Jackson's Chameleons
-Veiled Chameleons
-Anoles
-Sav monitors
-Blue Tongue Skink
-Water Dragons (Both Aussie and Chinese)
-Tokay Geckos
-Tegus


I know you said lizards but small species of torts go nicely as does corns, kings, milks, hognose, ball pythons, rtb and things of that nature. I think having a bunch of commonly sold plus a nice selection of not so common is a good thing to have.

 

[Debbe]

-Panther Chameleons
-Uromastyx
-Pygmy Chameleons
-Frilled Dragons
-Tokay Geckos
There is a large variety of geckos that do not climb that would be cool!