Hi everyone,
I'm helping a friend price his baby tortoises. He has a couple clutches of phayrei hatchlings he wants to unload quickly since they take up so much room and grow so quickly. I told him i've seen them as high as 450 for vic morgan's animals, but I said if he priced them at 200 to 250 he'd sell em quick. I know that's more the going rate for emys emys, but I feel like people aren't willing to pay more for phayrei since they look and act almost identical.
Is there much of a market for these tortoises or are they somewhat of a niche species in the sense that they get big, aren't colorful and aren't well known. could he actually get 300+ per tortoise?
I think he's going to sell them at an upcoming reptile show, but i'll get him to post them in the classifieds here if i can.
thanks,
JXL
I'm helping a friend price his baby tortoises. He has a couple clutches of phayrei hatchlings he wants to unload quickly since they take up so much room and grow so quickly. I told him i've seen them as high as 450 for vic morgan's animals, but I said if he priced them at 200 to 250 he'd sell em quick. I know that's more the going rate for emys emys, but I feel like people aren't willing to pay more for phayrei since they look and act almost identical.
Is there much of a market for these tortoises or are they somewhat of a niche species in the sense that they get big, aren't colorful and aren't well known. could he actually get 300+ per tortoise?
I think he's going to sell them at an upcoming reptile show, but i'll get him to post them in the classifieds here if i can.
thanks,
JXL