I did it again...

I went into a pet store in Austin called Herpeton. Their animals(reptiles and mammals) looked well-cared for, enclosures clean, animals had hides, etc.

So a friend and I sifted through the baby Balls as we always do, and we came across a tank of small(50g or so) babies that looked fairly dehydrated. So I started pulling some out and sexing them and found a female...

that was a ringer...

There were a few more that were reduced or were ringers, but were male. I'm fairly adept at popping baby Balls, and ones that were male popped out hemipenes and ones that were female popped out light pink tissue with slight veining(yes?). Hopefully we sexed them correctly. I didn't bring my probe set as I didn't think we were going "pet-storing".

So yeah, I came home with a 50g female ringer who has fairly good body tone, albeit mild dehydration. She had 2 mites on her that I picked off and squished and was promptly treated with Reptile Relief before she was bagged and put into a box.

We also went to a store called ZooKeeper a few blocks away that was also very decent(except for our experience with the mongooses, mongeese? mongi? Bah...) I also bought some Provent-A-Mite there, as well as a 1.1 pair of REX mice*dies*. Yay for fun breeding adventures. The mice are actually sweet and tolerate handling very well, surprising.

So anyway, back to the baby Ball. She's a Robin-snake , maybe one eye of an alien head on her whole body. She is currently in a 12qt tub with newspaper, 2 hides and a water bowl. Gotta love quarantine.