To my understanding, he was hatched in captivity from an egg that was either gathered after being laid in the wild, or from a gravid female that was captured, her eggs collected, and most likely released again unless she was then imported separately. Then he would have been shipped to an importer, along with a bunch of other hatchlings, who sorted them out, got them eating, and cleared them of parasites. I got him from Outback Reptiles.