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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chubbs" data-source="post: 81182" data-attributes="member: 1084"><p>The biggest things that affect price are really supply and demand. B.smithi is an extremely popular species and just about every keeper wants one, however there are a few variables that make them a tad more pricey. A) You will never come across any wild caught specimens anymore, since it is now illegal to take them out of the wild since they were placed on the cites II list. So pretty much all specimens you will come across are gonna be captive bred. B)Along with certain other Brachys, these are not quite as easy to breed as one may initially think. Despite being rather docile towards us, the females can be pretty hostile towards the males. So despite their popularity and high demand, they are not being bred as much as they really could be. Of course I'm going by U.S. statistics, so it may differ over in Europe. Here a pen ultimate male B. smithi will run around $80 to $100 and a mature female can cost a couple hundred dollars.</p></blockquote><p></p>