When you pay for a real removal, what are you actually paying for? Here's the whole job, start to finish, with nothing hidden.
People are often surprised how much of professional iguana removal happens away from the actual iguanas. The catching is the visible part; the value is in reading the property, dealing with the burrows, and closing the routes that would refill it. If you've only ever paid for a 'grab and go,' here's what a full job actually covers.
I'll walk it in the order we do it, so you can see where your money goes.
The property walk and assessment
Every real job starts with a walk — ours is free — where we map where the animals are basking, where they're denning, and how they're getting up onto the roof or into the pool cage. This is the step the cheap quotes skip, and it's the one that decides whether the rest of the work holds.
Removal and trapping
Then the actual removal: hand-catching the reachable animals and setting monitored traps for the wary ones, worked over time rather than a single grab. Green iguanas are dispatched on site under Florida's rules, humanely and legally — not relocated, which isn't lawful for this species.
- Hand and net capture of the accessible iguanas.
- Monitored trapping for the ones that won't come out, checked so nothing sits in a trap.
- Correct, humane, legal handling of every animal taken.
Burrow and habitat work
This is the part that makes it last. Collapsing and packing the dens so they don't re-open, hardening the bank edge where they re-dig first, and wrapping the climb routes on trees and pilings so cleared ground doesn't get re-colonized from the next canal over. Skip this and you're just renting an empty yard for a couple of weeks.
- Collapse and proper backfill of active burrows.
- Climb-route guards on trees, dock pilings, and rip-rap.
- Guidance on thinning the plants and food that draw them in.
What it costs and what's not hidden
A single visit starts from $125, a monitored program from $99 a month, and there's no lock-in contract either way. The property walk that scopes all of it is free, and we put the scope in writing before we start so the invoice matches the conversation. Market rates vary across the county — the point isn't that we're the cheapest, it's that you know exactly what the number buys.
The full scope lives on /iguana-removal, the numbers on /pricing, and a free walk starts from /contact.
Questions we hear
Does professional removal include fixing the burrows?
A full removal does — collapsing and packing the dens is what stops the seawall erosion and keeps the yard from refilling. Some cheap 'grab the visible ones' visits skip it, which is why they don't hold. Always confirm the burrow and climb-route work is in the scope before you book.
Are the iguanas relocated?
No — relocating green iguanas isn't legal in Florida, so they're dispatched on site, humanely and under the state's rules. A company that promises to 'set them free somewhere' either doesn't know the rules or isn't following them, which is a reason to look elsewhere.
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