MASSIVE Lost opportunity! :(

[The Serpent Merchant]

Right, because we are talking about walking money bags, not living breathing animals here right?

Plain and simple there is no get rich quick schemes in the reptile industry. not only would you have to be luckily enough to get a breeding pair, you would have to get them to adapt to captivity, deal with parasites, get them to eat, check for any other illnesses, then on top of all of that get them to breed and produce offspring... Simply sticking them together doesn't make babies. conditions have to be precise. And unless you are planning on selling all of the offspring locally then you will have to export them... a long and expensive process for every single baby. (if it is even legal) plus what happens when you don't sell all of them? how do you plan to take care of them?

[el8ch]

So today my girl friend tells me she seen two adult albino iguanas near the road. When she told me this I started looking them up and they seem to be expensive around 3000-3500 dollars. They lay around 50 eggs... I could be wrong but I think if she caught them and started breeding we could have been millionaires in ten years. Any thoughts?

My first thought after seeing the OP was from Canada and that there were two Albino Iguanas on the road was:

Must have been Albino Beavers.

But for real, no... not a good idea.

[sho220]

Canada...where wild albino Iguana couples roam free...who knew???

[TheSnakeEye]

Millionaires in years? They aren't going to stay that price forever. And you more than likely did not see albino Iguanas, considering you're in Canada.

[Coleslaw007]

Just to clairfy, my girl friend is carribean. I could literally build a chicken coup for them.

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[sho220]

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No...but I was afraid to ask...

[The Serpent Merchant]

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Makes perfect sense... girlfriend is on a tropical island, this guy is in Canada (pretty much the same place right?) So he will build a cage and either ship it to said island or they will smuggle the reptile into Canada.

Sounds like a plan

[TimmyG]

All the Canadian iguana jokes are hillarious! I mean that, I actually get a chuckle from them. No ones even questioned how I seen two albino iguanas with all the May snow we have!

But seriously, they were foung by my GF on her island, not the sunny shores of Canada (clone high ftw). Also, I am aware of the work that goes into breeding, thats why I dont do it, even after maybe 5 years of hobby experience. But I think since they would be kept in the carribean, housing would be relativly inexpensive. For instance by gfs cousins sometimes keep iguanas in outdoor pens. Feeding would be relativly easy since iguanas are herbivors and it wouldnt be too hard to ask the friendly people at the blue iguana reserve what the green ones eat that occurs naturally (assuming I didnt want to just go with produce from the store.

But someone addressed the issue of legally exporting them. That could be a potential stumbling block since I dont knwo the local laws or laws in places like the US where most would go and reptile laws change daily.

thsi is all hypothetical though. she never did catch them But I would like to knwo how Canadian iguanas made their way to her island in the first place!

[el8ch]

I would like to knwo how Canadian iguanas made their way to her island in the first place!

I might not be reading that right, but there is no such thing as a Canadian Iguana... ??

Regarding the Importing and Exporting of reptiles into or out of Canada is HUGE money. Cross border shipping to the US is very expensive also and requires all proper documentation and CITES etc...

EDIT: Would you really consider capturing these wild iguanas? If they were an invasive species, I may side with you but otherwise I would say that removing these animals from their natural habitat would be irresponsible. That being said, I do understand that this is ultimately what happened to get the CB animals we have in our collections... Where in the Caribbean were these animals spotted?

[Coleslaw007]

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Ugh stupid autocorrect on my phone

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