Herp. Shop Pix.

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Originally Posted by Amy1217

a pile of normal BPs
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ileofballs.jpg

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Are these balls always left like this?

There are some cute balls there.

They probably are always left like that. You can't sell snakes people can't see.

Though my local petco does have a hide in with their balls... then again they also have one with a retained shed so ya can't give them much praise.

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Originally Posted by Entropy

They probably are always left like that. You can't sell snakes people can't see.

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Is it just me or is that water bowl empty as well? Anyway, not a place I would wanna make a bp purchase from anytime soon... ;)

Sorry about the corn snake....i am not familiar with them, so you are probably right.

No, the BPs aren't left like that all the time. They just had that clutch recently, so the babys are still together, they sepearate them into 3-5 diffrent tanks, depending on the size of the clutch. Next time i go, they will be separated...they usually move them within a week or so.

The main snake keeper there is really cool. Has a looot of snakes, some cool lookin venomous ones too. I've only sceen pix, i'll see if i can get any for you all.

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Originally Posted by iceman25

Is it just me or is that water bowl empty as well? Anyway, not a place I would wanna make a bp purchase from anytime soon... ;)

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the water bowl does look empty, buttt i remember seeing water in it. could be the angle of the picture.
I have never gotten a BP from them, but i also have never heard any complaints about any of their snakes.

You can see the glare of water in that picture, it looks a bit over half full to me.

that's what i thought. they are ones to take care of their animals..from what i can tell

the pile of balls do look cute, i wanna hold them

oh i know, me too. I want to hold the monitor. my fav. guy...buttt 2 of the employees have BIG scars from him. so i think i'll hold out on that. lol.

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Originally Posted by Amy1217

No, the BPs aren't left like that all the time. They just had that clutch recently, so the babys are still together, they sepearate them into 3-5 diffrent tanks, depending on the size of the clutch. Next time i go, they will be separated...they usually move them within a week or so.

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They could do a lot better in my opinion. Leaving those poor bps like that even for a short while is a big no no in my book. Sure they look cute cuddled together like that. But that would be just us anthropomorphizing them. In the bp world, one ball coiling up on top of another is its way of exerting dominance over the other. Also, I doubt five tanks will be enough to house all of those individually. I just want you to know that I'm not being difficult here. There are lots of pet stores across the nation that provide much worse care for their bps. I just feel that it is my obligation to speak up when I see something that is less than par treatment of bps, and I do not want new comers to think that this is "ok" treatment of bps or other snakes in general.