How much do you spend?

[jjsnakedude]

I was wondering how much do you spend on Bps (food, bps, utilities, supplies, etc.) on an average year?

[Eversolulu]

I just got mine not too long ago, and altogether without the cost of my snake I've spent probably 500 or so.

[SAR17]

Have'nt added it up but Im sure its way more than I can afford.lol

[bsash]

Well, unlike most people, I use tanks, but I will soon be switching to repti-racks vision cages. Just for the set up alone, I spend a good $100 or more, and that does not include the tanks or thermostats because I get most of them off of craigslist or faunaclassifieds. But, any how, between the substrate, fake logs/ trees, water bowls, under the tank heat mats, and hides it is about $100 or so on each set up because I love natural looking enclosures.

As for feeding costs, I pay $2.00 for any size rat and $1.00 for pink and fuzzy rats a week. So, since there are 52 weeks in a year, I am looking at $104.00 for my adult ball pythons, and $52.00 for my baby ball pythons a year.

How much they cost me in utilities I have no idea, as I have always had ball pythons, and other reptiles.

Hope that helps you some, and has some information you were looking for!

[Generationshell]

Considering all their husbandry needs, their food cost, vet costs it can get pretty pricy.

haha and yet we are still inclined to buy more snakes :]

[Flowerbridge]

Thankfully, my room rental includes free utilities

i think food / supplies cost a little over $100 a year.

[tsdsbd]

i put under 100 but now that i think about it thats terribly wrong. i would say aroudn 500-1k a year

where i am i can only get rats at petco...6 bucks a pop..phew...and i buy F/T for my hondo, not as expensive 3 bucks a pop and aspen 15 bucks every other month

rats 52 x 6 = 312
mice 52 x 3 = 156
aspen 15 x 6 = 90

grand total approximate = 558

[snakeman13]

Last year was my first year in preparring to breed.
This is my first breeding season, hoping on 12 clutches.
I have spent over $50,000 in the last 1 1/2 years.
Can become addictive.

[freezingdwarf]

Last year was my first year in preparring to breed.
This is my first breeding season, hoping on 12 clutches.
I have spent over $50,000 in the last 1 1/2 years.
Can become addictive.

Well, I am the same, this was my first year of breeding, I called it my practice year. BUT, all my good breeder females were newborns, so I wont be producing the real clutches I want for another couple of seasons. I have 50 breeder animals right now, 11 are males. I say, I have spent $20k in 1.5 years

[OhhWatALoser]

for my whole collection

ill eastimate 1k for food n beding for the food and what not
utilities for all my reptiles is prob 600 a year (frickin bearded dragons bulbs are most of this)
i put another few hundred into building more caging or rebuilding a better design each year it seems, once i come up with my "grand cage/rack design" i won't have to spend anymore lol. i like to try out different things and not afraid to waste some money doing it.

so ill say 2k a year + w/e i spend on snakes