any advice on how to calm my insatiable thirst for loving more animals?
I'm also very much into that. I could get them all
We have here a great reptile store - almost always beardies, then chameleons, various kinds of snakes, green iguanas (also in blue and red), blue tongue skinks, leopard geckos, tortoises. Sometimes also frogs.
(I also love insects and tarantulas, but they are rarely available here.)
While living in the US, I also sometimes visited reptile/ exotics expos.
What keeps me from getting them: It's my love for animals. Like
@NickAVD:
I would have space for it (okay, we would have it - and I don't use much space for other stuff). I could afford the power consumption. I could afford the vet. But then there is the thing with getting the supplies - no only paying for them but really finding them here. Really hard and I already struggle with finding the correct lamps here in Chile just for my 1 bearded dragon (I will pick up more replacement lamps from relatives in Germany when traveling end of the year). So no way I could get all the supplies for 2 or 3 enclosures, and if I would need something out of the order like - yes, it exists - special sprays to make prey more attractive for snakes, or certain medicine, likely not available at all.
In the years before, I would have had a hard time regarding space, paying for (more) power, paying for the pet food, paying for the vet if necessary.
So, it's Taco, a bunch of hissing cockroaches (do not require special food nor some electric components - nothing from the pet store), an aquarium with platys (setup easily available here), and that's it. Period. For sure no additional pets.
In general: What keeps me from getting more pets, or what kept me from getting pets at all are cost, general availability of products/ care, and space. Time, and more specifically thinking about what I have planned for the next years, is also a thing. Here I'm fine with a bearded dragon: Rather long-term job, unlikely that we would have to move into a dorm or such, unlikely that we leave the country soon.
Years ago I would have had the opportunity to get a tree frog for free. Such a pretty animal - but it was just months before moving internationally. No tree frog.
It can also keep me from getting certain species. Like the green iguana(s) - so pretty, and I have no fear of large reptiles. But realistically, I would need an extra room for the iguana, or an enclosed outdoor space like in a garden, and I would need the special extra-long UV tubes. And if that iguana needs to go to the vet: Going on the bus with such a large animal... (We don't have a car and don't plan on getting one.) A bearded dragon is of much more manageable size and I could, if necessary, disguise his transport box as normal luggage on a bus.
So: No green iguana.