I dont think that not buying the snakes from petco or petsmart will stop them from getting more. If they sell the animal they will get more. If it dies they will still get more. A big chain store like that will not stop selling just because one stores snake died or they had it for a long time. Smaller mom n pop stores is a different story. Not buying their one snake can and most likely will stop them from bringing in a new one for a while.
As for prehistoric pets i personally would never buy a bp from them. If you watch their egg cutting videos the guy will say the clutch is black pastel to lesser and he cuts them and a bee pops out and still says it is a black platinum. Im sure they have bp specialists there but the owner doesnt know what he is doing with bps. They seem unirganized with bps. I also watched a video from them a couple weeks ago and they pulled bp eggs from a snake then said the rollout eggs were infertile so started throwing them at each other. The eggs looked normal and im sure they were fertile.people hatch rollout eggs all the time. The guy is an idiot just talk to kevin at nerd he will tell you. He calls him the butcher from baghdad.
Theres my little rant
03-27-2013, 04:27 AM
kdreptiles
Re: Pity pickups?
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Originally Posted by Jor23dan
I dont think that not buying the snakes from petco or petsmart will stop them from getting more. If they sell the animal they will get more.
Actually, that's exactly what happened to the petkill where I used to live. Always had sickly animals, always lying about their animals getting veterinarian care. People stopped buying, traveled to the reputable reptile store instead and what do you know, no more reptile section in Petco.
03-27-2013, 04:30 AM
threezero
thanks for that inside story. I don't really watch their bp stuff only their retic stuff cause frankly there are alot of other ppl doing better things with bp than prehistoric. How about LLL and underground? what the deal with them? like i said i only go off their video and to me they seems to not be in the same league as big chain store like petco and petsmart.
I respect NERD for everything they bought to the bp business but i have serious doubt about their hidden gene bps...
03-27-2013, 04:53 AM
Jor23dan
Re: Pity pickups?
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Originally Posted by kdreptiles
Actually, that's exactly what happened to the petkill where I used to live. Always had sickly animals, always lying about their animals getting veterinarian care. People stopped buying, traveled to the reputable reptile store instead and what do you know, no more reptile section in Petco.
Ive never heard of that. Not saying that what you said isnt true because I believe you just the first ive heard about it. The few petsmart and petcos around me have had many animals die or sit for a long time and they always get new ones in.
As for LLL and underground I am not sure I dont know much about them. I have also only watched a few retic vids from prehistoric and it seems like he knows what he is talking about it is just bps he has no clue. I am not to big on nerds hidden gene stuff simply because I cant afford any of it so I don't read into them as much so cant comment much on that either. The thing about nerd though is that he overprices a lot of the snakes in the store just because it has his name on it. I am about 15 min from nerd and ive gone in a few times and I would see a terrible example of a bee (you could barely even see that it had pastel in it it still looked like a spider) way more expensive than an outstanding looking bee.
03-27-2013, 04:59 AM
threezero
does NERD have like a storefront setup or does he personally show you around the facility? if he shows you around thats is pretty cool. the overprice i'm sure they are obo? or else how would they move the crappier animals if they price it that high?
03-27-2013, 05:05 AM
Jor23dan
Yes it is a store called zoo creatures then upstairs is where all the breeding and magic goes down. You really cant stop and talk to him unless your buying a snake around $1500 or more from them. Your buying one less than that you get stuck with a young kid that works there. He does tours for $8 on Saturdays and they show you all around and you get to go upstairs and see but other than that you stay in the store part. Im sure if you could catch him and try and get the price lower he would but the kids that work in the store really cant take a lower price than labeled
03-27-2013, 07:27 AM
swansonbb
Re: Pity pickups?
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Originally Posted by meowmeowkazoo
...it's best not to encourage them to import more baby balls.
I believe most of the animals they sell are captive bred. The worst husbandry and highest prices I see are usually at Mom & Pop stores.
03-27-2013, 09:13 AM
DMills
Re: Pity pickups?
I have purchased several reptiles from Underground and they were outstanding. My BPs thrived, ate well from day 1, were great examples of the species they represented etc. I'd advise you to not speak negatively unless you have personal experience, that's simply not fair to the business. As far as the OP's original question...great question and one I grappled with just the other day. I walked into a chain pet store and saw a 6 month old bp with the girth of a small corn snake. It was grossly underweight and looked horrible. I'm still debating as to whether or not I should go get it.
