Understand Wild caught captive breed long term captive captive born and breed.
- Aaron Grimoire
- Mar 6
- 1 min read
Wild caught (WC/FC) animals are caught from the wild and are also called field collected. They can come with ticks, parasites, infections, internal damage, and battle scars. These animals were simply caught and may or may not be treated for the issues above and have to either adapt to captivity or perish. Understand that wild-caught animals have the highest mortality of all categories, and that typically reflects price.
Long-term captive (LTC): These are wild-caught animals that have lived in captivity for a while and have adapted to captivity and molted or shed a few times, eating normal captive feeders or rats or commercially ready diets.
Captive bred (CB) are wild-caught animals that have been bred in captivity and born in captivity. Their babies have never been in the wild, making them captive born. You will see farm breeds sometimes as well; these are wild-caught animals that happen to have dropped babies once in captivity.
Captive bred and born (CBB): These are the babies of captive bred animals that were born right into captivity, have never been in the wild, and have always relied on human care ethics. Only know commercial diets and have always lived inside an enclosed provided enclosure.
Here at Grimoire Exotics all animals are CBB/CB unless specified.
All WC LTC or unknown animals will be marked in the options menu.