I know that theres already been a lot of posts on this but before i bought my ball i went to Petco to purchase supplies. I asked to see their balls just to see them, i wasn't planning on purchasing from them, but anyways the lady asked me if i had owned snakes before and i said no. Big Mistake! She started lecturing me like crazy trying to get me to purchase a corn snake and saying that balls were flighty and aggressive and were horrible starter snakes. She also told me that they get 6 -7 feet long and all this crazy stuff. Well there ball pythons turned out to have mites, which i told her while i was looking at them and i geuss she was probably trying to keep an uninformed person from buying a snake they werent going to care for properly but it still somewhat offended me that she just assumed that i had no idea what i was doing. Especially that she didnt really know what she was talking about.