The cost of lovin your pets.

[Bouncer]

To any of you thinking about having a zoo like mine...

To feed my animals for one week.....
5 Pythons, 19 Hatchling pythons, 8 hatchie beardies, 2 hatchy WD's, 4 Blue Tongues and 5 adult/sub Beardies. Cat Dog Rat Parrots.

6 containers of woodies, 6 containers of Medium crix, 3 containers of small crix - $40
1 Super Mealies and 1 small mealies - $6
4 large rats, 3 medium rats - $10
40 Pinkies - $30
Day old chicks - $1
Half a kilo mince - $5 (only the good stuff for my babes)
PawPaw, BukChoy, watermelon, Apple, Kiwifruit, Carrot - approx $10
CanOSnails, CanOGrasshoppers - $30
Cat food, Dog Food - $19
Bird Seed, Nectar - $15
Thats a grand total of $116

$30 vet bills last month, $120 medications. Then there's the electricity for all these enclosures on top.

Why do I do it?
Cuz I LOVE them

 

[jezza]

Geez I am coming to live at your place, my wife doesn't feed me that good (Cops a slap up the back of the head "sorry dear") lol
Yes it gets a bit expensive. Couldn't imaginge not havin our reps though so is money well spent I guess. I love em, my wife love's em ( that makes life a whole lot easier) and my daughters love em, so all in all its worth it in the long run!

 

[dobermanmick]

Where are you getting your pinkies and rats from ? Thats a great price !

 

[Wrasse]

Share the rats !!

As dobermanmick says..

 

[Ginajam01]

here for the rats to

 

[soulweaver]

you could try breeding some of the insects, works out cheaper.

 

[Bouncer]

I get em wholesale but SSHHHH, lol.
I have no room or patience for breeding insects.

 

[jezza]

I have a pile of old lawn clippings, some rat cage leftovers!!!!, couple of spud peels and cover it all with a scrap piece of lino and the woodis swam in. they love it, breeding like crazy and all natural. I just lift up the lino each morning and grab what I need!!! Easy.

 

[earthmother]

I read that if you catch insects or grubs for your Beardies they should be kept a few days and fed up so that they're safe to use. I used to go and pick thistles, clover and dandelions for the beardies, but we don't have any insecticides around because of the creek. So they're pretty safe.

 

[Bouncer]

What other plants are safe for beardies to eat? i give mine dandelions when I can find them.

 

[instar]

clover is safe? must try that! no thistles about here though. all my liz love dandelines!

 

[ether]

The time you spent getting woodies would easily make up the time spent for breeding them.

 

[hugsta]

I agree ether, breeding woodies is very easy and low maintainence.

 

[ether]

Yep, just started my colony and looks like i will be saving heaps of money. Does everyone heat there tubs?

Cheers Alex

 

[Bouncer]

Not really, I have a set order I pick up every Friday. Plus if I buy em in lil containers I don't have to pick the critters up, I can't handle touching them, Call me a girl, lmaoooo. I hate bugs.

 

[beknluke]

lol - I don't mind the bugs at all - call me a tom-boy!! lol
I have been heating my woodies lately - but this is because all of the adults had been fed off, s I need to grow up the lil ones.
Cost me about $100 every 6 weeks or so?? And that was to feed:

8x water dragons
2x frillies
22x beardies (5 adults, 3 yearlings and 14 juvies)
6x netteds (5 adults, 1 juvie)
3x painteds (not that one of them is eating)
and lastly, 1 4mth old childreni

That was when I was buying the roaches though - I have saved quite a bit since breeding them. But there is a shortage Australia wide apparently in woodies, so I had to buy $180 worth of buld med crix and bulk mealworms from Pisces!! Let's see how long THAT lasts for!!
Add to that the $140/8 weeks dog food AND food to feed the man, I should just give up!! lol
But you're right Bouncer - we love em!!
Bex

 

[AGAMIDAE]

Hi Bouncer...try breeding your roaches and meal worm (crickets can be harder).., so very easy, you can cut down your cost by heaps....also buy direct from Pisces and in bulk...1500 adult raoches for $55.00 plus frieght....1000 adult crickets for the same price.. (Note..anyone that hold a reptile licence are able to buy direct....saving you heaps off petshop prices..Ph.1800 351 839)

Keeping them is easy...a plastic tub and feed them on your veggie scraps

 

[Already_Gone]

I buy mine from sunstate, 07 38082313. but that is a good price for woodies. i think it works out about $4/100

 

[geckodan]

Bouncer, Do your self a favour and spend $120 or so on a "bug inn" from Mozzie Busters on the Gold Coast. This neat little insect trap just hangs on a wall. Switched on at night it will catch (at my place anyway) 200-300 moths, hoppers, flying roaches etc per night during summer. Apart from the power these are free food items. As I am feeding about 1100 reptiles and birds I run two (at different ends of the house) and it at least provides some extra food between cricket orders.

 

[AGAMIDAE]

what the phone number for the Dan