I don't a havea revenue since i not a breeder and make money off the the reptiles. but if need a figure for a revenue lost I can give that since i know i lost money going to pick up snake ( but i never kept figures ) but moat lost has been in fuel expenses. So a rough figure this year would be a net lost of 300 bucks at least.
Was married to 4theSNAKElady (still wish we were)
Ball pythons
0.1 pieds 1.0 banana pied
0.1 het pied
The best thing I can suggest is to try and contact the companies and distributors individually. Some of the ones I can think of are:
- Zoo Med
- Exo-Terra
- Flukers
- Big Apple Herp
- LLL Reptiles
- Pro-Products
- Reptile Basics Inc.
- Boamaster Cages
- Animal Plastics
- Vision Products
- ARS Caging
- Cages By Design
- Custom Cages
- Drs. Foster and Smith
- Natural Chemistry
These are just the companies I can think of that are suppliers. This doesn't include things purchased from other companies... ex. all of the Rubbermaid and Sterilite tubs and Accu-rites purchased from Wal-Mart, etc.
I wonder what percentage of Accu-rites annual sales end up in reptile enclosures. They probably aren't even aware that their product is so popular among reptile keepers...
I seem to remember them using similarly derived figures to put an estimate on the total loss to the US economy if any of the python bans went through.
dr del
Derek
7 adult Royals (2.5), 1.0 COS Pastel, 1.0 Enchi, 1.1 Lesser platty Royal python, 1.1 Black pastel Royal python, 0.1 Blue eyed leucistic ( Super lesser), 0.1 Piebald Royal python, 1.0 Sinaloan milk snake 1.0 crested gecko and 1 bad case of ETS. no wife, no surprise.
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