the reptile zoo

[cmack91]

so i went to california for my grandmas 70th birthday, and while we were down there we went to the prehistoric pets reptile zoo. if i had to sum it up in one word, it would be "ugh". first, all of their prices were insanely high, pastels for 175, they couldnt have even been 100 grams and they were really brown, spiders for 250, normals for 50-100, and those were the only bp's. white lips for 250, gtp's for 500, the only reasonable prices were on the tarantulas, rose hairs for 20, gbb for i think 40, goliath bird eater for 40. and heres the kicker, he had a NORMAL, CORN SNAKE, for $150.00!!! on sale for 100, an albino (regular amel) for 225. it was outrageous. and this is just the retail area.

in the zoo, half the snakes had stuck eye caps, probably 70% had stuck shed, and even more than that were in disgusting cages. i mean one snake in a cage, with 3 piles of poop, all of them completly dry. almost all of the water dishes had a film over the surface, some were even growing algae. a good third of the animals were skinny, most had fire ants and flies crawling on them, some even had mites, and a few even had noticable amounts of mucous. i was appaled, i felt disgusting just being in there. my dad even thinks the place was disgusting, and for the most part hes one of those "its a snake, its fine in a box with a heat bulb" people (although he is coming around). i would go into more detail but i dont really want to think about it, and when my dad gets home i'll get whatever pics he took off of his camera (i was too grossed out to take any).

this isnt the worst place in the world, it probably sounds worse reading this than it was, but it was still pretty bad.

i lost all respect (not that i had a whole lot) for the dude that runs the place, and i will never buy a snake from him if my life depended on it. dont waste your money going there, unless you want to spend 5 bucks being grossed out all day.


***if a mod see's this, can you move it to the inquire/ feedback section please? i feel like it should be in there***