How Much Have You Spent?

Sometimes I look at all my reptiles and their equipment/supplies and go "Wow! Where did I come up with that much cash?" And then to see the value of morphs dropping so fast its amazing what we have paid for our snakes just to see someone the following year buying it for half as much, especially with the bigger breeders that have been in this for a while. Some of our morphs that only cost us $300 were thousands and thousands of dollars to them. So, without taking your tanks, racks, feeding equipment, feeding bill, electricity bill, etc into account, and you only add up what you've paid for your snakes/lizards/amphibians/inverts, how much have you spent on your babies?

I've spent close to $2000 for my herps. I don't have my pastel female anymore but we are trying to get her back from the person we sold her to (big mistake).

Im about in the $400 range so far but I have only just begun!!! lol I imagine with the breeding plans I have that I will be in the thousands for sure

My husband claims I'm going to put us in the poor house. Hahaha. I have plans to spend about $500-600 in snakes in 2010, maybe more if I get a really good job (like the one my husband has). That doesn't even take into account the racks I will need. I'll be spending a minimum of $500 on racks this year. Yep, poor house, here we come!

Looking around the reptile room (so not including the animals that were bought and then later sold), Ive spent $5185 and over half of that was from this year alone.

Too much..for my pocketbook. Prob. close to a grand, which is why I'm trying to produce my own. I'm tired of spending mad money on hets, only to be able to get the visual morph for less than what I paid for my het pair just a few years ago! Hoping to produce some of my own albinos this year, than maybe I can trade them for a few more morphs that I want. Plus, it's so much more fun and rewarding to produce your own....gives you something to be proud of..:D

For just my snakes we've spent about $750. All very much worth it though, wouldn't trade them for the world!

I just turned 19, and have well over 2k In reptiles.
Now my parents.. have well over 2k in one snake.. haha

we've spent only $660 for our herps.

In my lifetime, I've probably spent somewhere around $50k in animals. I wouldn't want to calculate the cost of the food for all of my animals.

Jim Smith

Eeking real close to the 50K mark..with rat barn building, 6 bags of rat food a week, building snake room, bla ba bla..