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jackie682
Hi! New here. Interesting topic. Wanted to point out that at the 3 petcos near me, they sell pastel and spider BPs, $100 IIRC. Not sure where they get them, but I'd venture to guess not from a captive hatched farm in Africa.
sometimes breeders sell all normals, and all morph BPs that are not worth enough, cheaply to wholesalers, and then they can end up in a big chain stores. with shipping costs and stuff, sometimes its more economical to only sell individually what is above a certain minimum price, and anything below that treshold just goes to wholesalers in bulk. so these pastels and spiders may be from breedings like superfly kingpin to bumblebee or something, from a big and famous breeder, and its simply the ones that missed out on the odds and didnt get a bunch of valuable genes.
and while captive hatched and farmed BPs from africa are generally normals, there are now also breeders in africa working with rack systems and morphs. in the future i would expect larger numbers of basic morphs from africa. even if they do breed in racks and dont do the farming and captive hatched thing, african breeders still have the advantage that they need no heating, no electricity, and no incubators to run a rack-based breeding operation. the climate simply is exactly right.
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ratfink721
I have a question. I'm new to BPs as well. Got mine from petco. The neck of it is no bigger than my pinkie. I got a ASF baby rat from a local breeder is this to big for my snake?
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The neck can stretch. Feed prey that is the same size as the widest part/girth as your snake.
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Ok thank you. Yea I bought one BP and then my buddy had to git rid of his three and I took them. He was gonna give them to a rescue. Couldn't have that.
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Re: Just a thought....................
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ratfink721
I have a question. I'm new to BPs as well. Got mine from petco. The neck of it is no bigger than my pinkie. I got a ASF baby rat from a local breeder is this to big for my snake?
ASF Baby? There are several stages, pinky, crawler, pup, and hopper with rodents so depending on what size it is depends if its too big or small. I would venture to say with it being an ASF its might be too small. Like satomi said, same size as the widest part of your snake is a good ratio to go by. :gj:
