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Price of turtles..

PostPosted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:03 pm
by LucasTurtle
I had gained an interest in Box turtles recently and reseached a fair amount :) So, we went to a reptile expo in Missasauga just a few days ago and spotted a few turtles :)

I remember there were leopard turtles, red foots, sulcata, and a few other species of land turtles. However, they were so darn expensive :(. I'm asking is $250 CND resonable for a hatchling sulcata, or red foot? I believe leopard turtles were $300. There were also larger ones for sale around the same price. Is this a good price? ( Yes I would love to adopt one but, these turtles are very rare to find here)

PostPosted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:05 pm
by LucasTurtle
There were some of these turtles (2 or 3) also in local classifieds but, they were also around the $250-$400 price range.

p.s. We didn't want to leave the expo empty handed so we got a baby red-belly and some food there :)

PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:44 pm
by Terryo
Those prices are crazy. Go to kingsnake.com , in the classified and you can get almost anything...a lot cheaper.

PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:51 pm
by jenaero
Those prices are normal for Ontario. I paid $350 for my 3toed box turtle.. I've never seen a redfoot under $300. I have since found a cheaper source for boxies. I can find out if others are cheaper if you dont mind a drive to the niagara area

PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:40 am
by jozzep
tortoises are expensive.......
Not really familiar with the canadian $ but in US $ you will not find any for less than $125...

PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:47 am
by LucasTurtle
Thanks, Terry. I found some really cheap turtles in the U.S. makes me wanna move :P I don't think Canada has anything under 200 :(.

jenaero, when I can convince my parents, I will check the niagara area :)

PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:01 pm
by X-Factor
If you are in the Toronto area, there's Market Village next to Pacific mall in Markham.


There is an aquarium pet store on the 2nd floor. The store sells land turtles there but I think they are probably overpriced. I didn't pay much attention to the land turtle prices when I was there but I did see that they are selling several $2000-$3000 fish. :roll: But their baby RES were priced at $8 each or 3 for 20.

http://www.luckyaquarium.com/

I probably wouldn't bother calling unless you know fluent Chinese. I haven't been to any PJ's Pet Centres in the area but that might also be an option too.

PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 4:08 pm
by LucasTurtle
Wow, thanks X-Factor :) I will totally check that out sometime since it's only around an hour drive :)

PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 4:09 pm
by LucasTurtle
Also, that is a nice price for RES :)

I went to a local Big Al's store and they had RES for $29.99.

PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:10 am
by X-Factor
I found another forum here:

http://www.reptilescanada.com/classifie ... php?cat=39

Canadian classifieds for turtles. You have to be logged in to see the forums though.

PostPosted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 5:59 am
by novroz
Yeah tortoise is so expensive...I just found star something tortoise (I forgot its name) and it cost Rp.900.000, it's about $90, My monthly salary is $200 how could I buy that beauty??

But I really want it