Pet Store Breeders

[crepers86]

wait doesn't petsmart only carry CH Ball Pythons... I have never been to a pet smart that didn't have CH BPs every other animal is CB, but I remember reading the only way they can keep baby BPs in stock year round was to do Captive Hatched BPs. If that is a pastel then the one I just recently got from petsmart a couple weeks ago is one too. but it isn't. Its a very pretty normal but it is just that... normal. I am not big on all the morphs but I have seen enough pastels to know that is not a pastel. a pastel comes close to looking like a normal but with yellow patering. I have seen most pastels going for around $150, The petsmart in Galveston Island does a good job with there reptiles and not over crowding (but can't keep BPs in stock) has a Sand Boa (doesn't say what kind) but I am pretty sure this is just a normal sand boa, for $100 most local owned pet shops have sub adults and juvys for about $45 to 50

anyways this is a pic of a pastel


this is a pic of my newest baby

[RetiredJedi]

...I have seen most pastels going for around $150...

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I got my pastel for $75 at Repticon

[Mike41793]

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I got my pastel for $75 at Repticon

You got a male right? He was talking about females i think.
Males go from $75-$125
Females $125-$225
All depends on size and how good of an example of the morph they are.

[Slim]

wait doesn't petsmart only carry CH Ball Pythons... I have never been to a pet smart that didn't have CH BPs every other animal is CB, but I remember reading the only way they can keep baby BPs in stock year round was to do Captive Hatched BPs.

Petsmart does CH because they can bring them in for $10 each and sell them for $79.99. It's a better profit margin than buying $15 CB and making $5 less per animal. Petsmart is the Wal-Mart of the pet world. Everything they do is based on the $, not love of the animals.

CB breeders hatch baby BPs year round in this country. BPs in west Africa tend to breed seasonaly. You do the math on that one...

[Riv]

Well you guys are absolutely right. She is a normal after all. Her eyes are all wrong. But hey im fine with a pretty normal. It just means I have to drop $150-$250 on a female pastel soon after all XD

[crepers86]

I was refering to local owned pet store pricing.

also how does pet smart get baby bps all the time if they breed in the wild seasonaly