Quote Originally Posted by Eric Alan View Post
Does making a reptile setup larger and more elaborate make it easier or more difficult for a hobbyist to care for it properly and efficiently? Now, transfer that thought to the retail store environment where time is your biggest expense. In order to make a larger display, you would also have to remove space from another area - would the lost sales there be made up for as well? In a cost/benefit analysis, would this be a productive use of funds for a company?
I'm just throwing out some ideas, and the thing that struck me first was seeing two or three ball pythons in an enclosure I wouldn't keep a single snake in. As I'm sure everyone here knows, husbandry errors sometimes require wallet-clenching responses. My two cents is also that reptiles, which eliminate with less frequency than birds or small mammals, are easier to clean and care for and a larger habitat doesn't make much difference in the time it takes to care for them. A glass tank with substrate is a glass tank with substrate no matter how you look at it.