For a friend of mine, who decided against getting a snake right now. But the kit included:
10 gallon tank with non locking mesh lid
aspen shavings
water dish
1 hide
Dome lamp with a ridiculously high wattage bulb
Under tank heater
stick on thermometer
No other hide. No thermostat. 10 gallon ok I guess; they mostly sell babies... no digital thermometer, no hygrometer at all, no instructions. No lock. I don't like aspen bedding but who asked me.
And this is from a SNAKE STORE. Of course people trust them! If I didn't research obsessively and have people bark at me on this forum I would have trusted them too. No instructions, no mention of humidity, no... anything. Just "here's your snake and bake."
I just... I'm not even close to perfect. But when an almost total novice can put together a better starter set than a speciality snake store, I'm speechless.
This forum has hurt my feelings, but without it I might have bought that kit. I wonder how many BPs are living in needlessly bad conditions because for some reason pet stores don't know the first thing about the first thing. And then so many people complain that their pet sheds weird or won't eat. Well maybe if you stopped cooking/freezing/drying him out.
But they think they're doing the right thing because the experts said so and unless they go on here, a lot of the Internet backs them up. I hate it.
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