Buying my first tegu. Anyone know anything about First Choice Reptiles?

[Rikto]

I've been doing a lot of research on tegus for awhile now and looking for a good place to purchase one, and I saw on kingsnake.com First Choice Reptiles has some new babies available. I would really like to get one, but I wanted to know if anyone here has dealt with them before. If there is a better place to buy one please let me know.

I would prefer to get one in person, but there are no breeders in my state (washington) as far as I can find, and there are no expos with tegus near here.

Thanks!

 

[glk832]

Never heard of them. And those babies are prolly imports if that matters to you. CBB tegus if Im not mistaken are born in like July-September.

 

[Rikto]

Import or not does not really matter to me as long as I can get one as a baby and it's healthy. Also what does CBB mean? Something about breeding I'm guessing.

 

[glk832]

Captive born bred. meaning they were born and breed and Captivity and not captive hatched ..

 

[tegu.crz]

Craigslist Seattle WA there is a lady selling one and she says it's super friendly. It is an adult. Maybe look into that. We got an adult and are very happy!

 

[Rikto]

Thanks for pointing out the tegu on Craigslist to me, he looks like a nice guy. I forgot to mention, I'm in Spokane on the east side of Washington (sadly not close to anything interesting.) So it would be a long boring 6 hour drive just to take a look at that guy. I'm really hoping to get a baby though, so I can have a part in its emotional development and growth. If I get a 2nd tegu after I have some experience with them, then I won't be so picky however.

Thank you for pointing that out though, I'll keep a better eye on Seattle Craigslist. For some reason that tegu would not show up if I searched for tegu from the main page so I did not see it before.

Edit: I also saw that the tegus from First Choice were referred to as (F1) can anyone tell me what that means?

 

[tegu.crz]

If u search on the main page it brings up for sale category. Pets are listed under community. ;-)