What has been your most expensive reptile purchase so far?

After reading another thread (cost of your first snake), I thought this would be an interesting topic. I know there is a similar older thread floating around (how much would you spend on a BP), but I think it would be interesting to see what you have spent on your most expensive reptile purchase to date... Any species of reptile.

I'll start us off. My most expensive animal so far has been my GTx leachie boy Andre the giant. I purchased him January 2017 for $550 at a measly 12 grams. After having him for a year, and him growing to 164, I think it was a good investment. One day, I'm looking forward to purchasing him a female and attempting to breed.

https://ball-pythons.net/forums/show...n-morph/page42

that threads been kicking around a while and I had fun going through it. But it’s only bps I believe. I only own bps and a rat snake so I’ve maxed out at $550 so far.

Seems like peanuts when you see some of the morph market prices

Vet bill, $5k.

500 for my female blackbee mojave orange ghost bp, my Redfoot tortoise comes in second at 250.

Habitat. Up to almost 3k in housing, heating, hiding, and hydration. Yep the 4Hs.

A lot of mine have been in the 200-300 range for just the animal. Thats for my SD retic, granite IJ, pied ball, GHI Mojave ball, & bci. The retic, carpet, and pied were steals and bought for way less than they should have been priced.

Vet bills up to about $400-500 to save my newly adopted bearded dragon from yellow fungus, who I ended up having to put down upon discovery of her grim diagnosis. That experience ward me off from adopting any reptiles. So my most expensive animal purchase would be my ball python at $180. Most expensive habitat would be the 4 foot drag tank by Deep Blue at a good price $300 plus about $50 in supplies to build my own stand for the tank. My skink needed the upgrade badly.

But compared to my dogs care and vet bills, this is cheap lol.

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Originally Posted by bcr229

Vet bill, $5k.

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what pet had cancer?

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Killer King Clown, 2k

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Originally Posted by Scherf

what pet had cancer?

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Colon reduction surgery where an infection had completely blocked it.

I did have another boa pass due to cancer, there's no way to treat it in snakes sadly.

Have also had vets bills and caging bills over $1000 but I think my two tiger ATBs purchases still top the cake at $1600+/ea (back in 2010/2011)

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Originally Posted by bcr229

Colon reduction surgery where an infection had completely blocked it.

I did have another boa pass due to cancer, there's no way to treat it in snakes sadly.

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holy smokes! 5k.... my gf is a vet tech and anyone says 5k we think chemo cause that one round (twice a week over 6 weeks)

and thats unfortunate that your boa got cancer.... and ya vet medicine is load of crap IMO. Very little research, slow advancements, and most of the advancements piggy backs human advancements while most of human advancements cannot even transfer over to animals....

Over 1k on a couple, I buy what I like. Spent far more on my caging/setup though.

just not $850 on a GHI Mojave Yellowbelly

Not in one purchase but I’ve spent well over 6k for all my BPs with everything the past two years


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$30 Smooth Sided Toad with a scratch on its back. Gf insisted I take it to the vet because I'm not a frog expert. $800 worth of testing later- the Vet determined there was a scratch on its back. Nothing to be concerned about...nice...

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Not in one purchase but I’ve spent well over 6k for all my BPs with everything the past two years


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your doing better then me man, im almost at 3k this past month on just 5 snakes......the addiction is strong.

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your doing better then me man, im almost at 3k this past month on just 5 snakes......the addiction is strong.

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Lmao addiction is saying it nicely hahahah me and the hubby are going to Repticon on April 7th in Orlando....let’s see if I don’t blow my savings and quarterly bonus out the door [emoji23]🤣


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Lmao addiction is saying it nicely hahahah me and the hubby are going to Repticon on April 7th in Orlando....let’s see if I don’t blow my savings and quarterly bonus out the door [emoji23]🤣


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I wonder if there is snake rehab ?