where could i sell baby chameleons?

[Benhartnet]

My female chameleon just reach 7 months and am thinking of breeding her with a male.( if i ever find anybody else who has a one and live in Tampa, FL). My question is where could i sell them at? I went to a pet supermarket where i get my crickets but they said they don't buy them and i should go to this store called "Budget pet" store. Is that place accurate or is there anywhere else?
I can't maintain them especially since they are going to probably be like 23-30 eggs depending on the egg clutch. Heck am waiting to get my Large 24x24x48 cage for my female since she is reaching adulthood, in order to leave the medium cage for the small ones until they reach 1-2 month old in order to sell them.

 

[jannb]

Welcome to the Chameleon Forums. You could sale them here on the forums in the classified section. I would recommend waiting until your female is over a year old and a good size before you breed. Breeding is a big MAJOR responsibility. I would recommend you read this and give it some thought.
https://www.chameleonforums.com/some-thoughts-breeding-2612/

At 7 months she also needs a laying bin. They can and often do lay eggs without a male even being around. This second link it to my egg laying/laying bin blog.
https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/jannb/345-egg-laying-laying-bin.html

 

[Cainschams]

There are companies that will buy wholesale too on kingsnake.com.

 

[Benhartnet]

thx Jann, i wish i could had a male instead but my buddy had one, in which i decided to get a female but apparently my friend decided not to feed it for weeks or give it water so it eventually died. It lived for 2 year even, and now i have to continue our plan for breeding with somebody else . I just wish they didn't breed so many eggs lol i would have been happy with just 5.

 

[Fearaffect]

Why plan on breeding? Sounds like you dont have the resources for such an endeavor or the "understanding" of what it will take......

Just because you have a female, doesnt mean you should breed........

Maybe wait a few years and get more experience with chams then decide on whether you want to breed and if its even worth it........

 

[Olimpia]

What are your reasons behind wanting to breed? Try to answer honestly, please.
Do you plan on making money form the venture?
Do you want to keep some of the offspring?

 

[Cainschams]

thx Jann, i wish i could had a male instead but my buddy had one, in which i decided to get a female but apparently my friend decided not to feed it for weeks or give it water so it eventually died. It lived for 2 year even, and now i have to continue our plan for breeding with somebody else . I just wish they didn't breed so many eggs lol i would have been happy with just 5.

If you are wanting to breed for fun but do not want a ton of animals there are always a couple options. You can find someone who has a nice male and make a deal with them like giving them all the eggs that you do not want, hatch all the eggs and give them the offspring you do not want or breed her and throw away all but however many eggs you want.

 

[Benhartnet]

I invested a lot of money on this chameleon, on the cage, food, and the lights. I studied these critters from the internet and three different books that i bought and for the first time in my life i actually found something that was interesting and fascinating. I feel like the only thing left for me to learn and do is to breed my chameleon.
The reason i wanted to breed was mainly because my friend and i were going to breed our chameleons and sell the offspring. Of course we intended to stay with another F/M in case we ever wanted to breed again but we never intended to stay with 20 of them at the same time. We don't have the money or the resources to keep them.
Now i want to breed for the experience of having a female and successfully breeding her, although i can't keep all of the offspring since i can barely pay for the food for the one am keeping lol.

 

[Benhartnet]

i was just thinking about that Cainschams, although i really feel bad about throwing away the eggs lol makes me feel like i killed them....

 

[Olimpia]

Perhaps breeding is not in the cards right now, if you can't afford your current one with ease. Babies will go through hundreds of crickets a week (as Jann will probably be happy to tell you!) and that's a lot of money, even if you only keep them for a couple months. Cain's recommendations are certainly options you have to have fewer babies, but even a few will be more expensive than your one in food.

 

[Benhartnet]

Yea, am planing on getting a job in order to make this work, besides I wasn't going to do it anytime soon that why I wanted expert opinion on this matter.

 

[Synapse]

We don't have the money or the resources to keep them...since i can barely pay for the food for the one am keeping lol.

I read that and I don't think you should be attempting to breed chameleons.

You are going to have to spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars rearing the offspring. If your husbandry if incorrect they may end up dying and you will have wasted both time and money.

Just being straight up with you, I don't think you know what you're really getting yourself into.

 

[Benhartnet]

Like I said a wasn't planning on doing anything when I know I can't even pay for everything am not stupid. Am just simply gathering info for future reference. As far as I read and seen I believe am quite aware of what am getting into.

 

[emilybier]

You really shouldn't breed them unless you have the means to keep them for a while. Sometimes sales don't go through and you have to keep them for longer than planned. You never know what might happen with animal breeding so you need to be prepared for every scenario. Also, breeding loans can be very very tricky and often work out poorly. If you are really invested in the idea of breeding, you should probably get your own male.

 

[KatiLemons]

you are also aware that it takes about 8 months or longer for the eggs to incubate?

 

[Benhartnet]

Yes am very aware, I did say I read this from books after all lol. Again am not planning to do this anytime soon so don't worry I won't do anything rash or stupid.

 

[sdheli420]

just to consider costs..i have spent about $700.00 per batch of babies for set ups, food, supplements, lighting, and "growing them up" to sellable age(approx 2 1\2 months to 3 months)

 

[Olimpia]

There will be people willing to buy wholesale, like someone already mentioned, but the only negative thing about that is that you wouldn't know where your babies are ending up. And believe me, you get attached to them in the short months you have them! And unfortunately, with that you don't know if they'll end up at pet stores sold to incompetent owners.

You could also try selling individually to members of forums like this one, which would tell you that at least the owners are people that might know a thing or two about cham care.

So that depends on your preferences.

 

[melrito]

It is always best to gain as much experience as you can before you start breeding, and also to have a plan for the offspring - like others have mentioned, it is expensive to rear offspring correctly. How long have you had your cham? There's a lot more to learn than just what is in the books...

 

[Benhartnet]

I have her for 7 moths now, also I believe I forgot to mention she was a Yemen Veiled chameleon.