Hello, I'm new here and new to BP's. I just got my first one a couple of weeks ago (previously owned) and my daughter has a full grown one. Daughter and I went to a very large expo to see what there was to see.
First though was, Oh cool! Look at all the thousands of snakes and other reptiles! Look at all the interesting morphs!
Second thought was, they don't look very happy in those tiny plastic food containers. While some were clearly healthy and literally shedding in the containers, and had some bedding, others were sad-looking and scared. Some were locked in plastic clear display boxes with no bedding, clearly freaked out. One pair of adult ratsnakes for sale were stuffed into round plastic containers with no room to spare at all. This is fine for temporary display, but I can imagine that most of the dealers would not have larger enclosures available for the snakes to "stretch their legs" after the day is done.
Third thought was there are a LOT of baby snakes, I wonder if they all get sold? What happens to the ones that don't get sold? It seems that in general you see more baby/young snakes in the pet owner population than adult and older snakes. Are they culled at some point? Is there a high rate of death of the babies?
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