General Exotics?

[CHAMaDdIcT]

hey everyone, i was just wondering, but is General Exotics a reliable site? because they have some herps that ive NEVER seen for sale like CB Draco volans! and Gonocephalus doriae! and they have really low prices for everything

heres a link to the agamid section

http://www.generalexotics.com/lizards-agamas-c-5_23

 

[fluxlizard]

I don't know anything about the business.

But I do know you have your eye on some difficult species.

I've bred Gonocephalus chamaeleontinus one time and IMO they are even worse to acclimate and deparasitize than the toughest of chameleons. (And man do they come in carrying some heavy loads of huge worms in their guts- after deworming they would crap them out alive and wriggling- I have never seen worms that size in lizards that size). They are very chameleon like in other ways too- stress very easily, maybe moreso than chameleons. Mine literally would not move if I was in the room, and they would not go near each other- very territorial like a chameleon. Only 10x the stress problems. They are very similar to chameleons in other ways too- prefer drinking mist or moving water, like coolish temperatures. The captive bred babies weren't bad- I hope to try to establish a permenant breeding group at some point in the future if I am lucky enough to find enough adults to get started with. But the imports are definately among the most difficult of lizards to get acclimated. They make any chameleon I've ever acclimated look like a cake walk...

I think most of the genus gonocephalus is likely to be very similar. But I haven't worked directly with the species you are interested in.

As for the dracos- they are likely to be captive born rather than captive bred. I don't have experience with them directly, but my understanding is they need ants in the diet and to date they have been difficult to keep alive for any length of time. I may be wrong or behind the times because I haven't directly worked with them, as I say.

If I was to buy anything off that site it would be the webers sailfin dragons. Not too hard to acclimate when young, easy to feed - herbivores that will take salad, bugs, and bearded dragon pellets... Really cool looking as adults...

Edit- I just saw the vietnamese calotes on there- I've never seen those before. Those are a neat looking lizard...

 

[Brad]

You should check out the BOI at fauna classifieds.
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=13