Buying captive-bred and rehoming

Captive-bred

A captive-bred animal was born in a collection. A captive-hatched animal may have come from a wild-collected egg or a wild gravid female. Those are different claims. Ask which one is true. Wild-caught animals are more likely to carry parasites and more likely to sit inside a permit you do not have.

Questions that matter

What species is it, in Latin? How old is it, and what does an adult weigh? What has it been eating? When did it last shed? Can you see it eat, or at least see a recent stool and a clear pair of eyes? A morph name does not answer any of those.

Rehoming on Repticentra

The rehoming board is not a shop. There is no checkout. Listings for EU invasive species, venomous species, and some CITES or Lacey Act cases are blocked. Every other listing asks you to confirm the transfer is legal where you live. Read the species page and the laws page before you collect an animal.

Bringing it home

Quarantine it. Set the enclosure up before the car ride, not after. Keep the seller's notes with your own records. If the animal is an Annex A tortoise, the certificate matters more than the tub it arrived in.

Walking away

A animal that is thin, mite-covered, or sold with no species name is not a bargain. The morph calculator can wait.