Where do Petco stores get their reptiles?

[josh@outbackreps]

Petco right now has about 900 stores.


I can't recall the name of the cricket company that owns the iguana farms in costa rica, but they import thousands of baby iguanas every year. The guy also has a partner who produces thousands of beardies and leopard geckos too. He used to own reptileforums.com, howard something or other.

I believe you are thinking of Flukers Farms.
They have the Iguana farms, and the beardies they sold used to come with a blue or green? dot on the base of the tail, as a way of marking the ones from that particular breeders production. I think he was "farming" them in Florida outside in large pens.

As far as price, they will be high priced on the albino balls, but they look at it as, if someone is going to pay $2k for a bird why not a "pretty" snake?