So I'm bring this up because last night I was buying some live feeders for a few picky animals and I overheard two guys talking about the snakes they had.


They were looking at an albino kingsnake and one of the guys said he was albino due to needing a different type of uv light.......and I thought.....ha, whats this guy smoking over there. I went over and introduced myself and we talked snakes for awhile. Both of these guys owned ball pythons and used the expensive uv bulbs, no hides, and were also forcing feeding their pythons once a month to eat a little "suppliment" pill that had calcium and other stuff in it. These guys were told to do this by the "snake expert" at petco..........

Now I set them straight after letting them know they could feed the animals more than once a month. One of the guys told me he was on his forth ball python because the others had died and petco was just replacing them. This made me so sick and frankly kind of ticked off. It's not the first time I'd heard something this bad coming from that store.

Is there something that can be done about this? I even went over to the store and talked to someone about it and they didn't seem to care, manager wasn't there, etc. I know they give caresheets and even those caresheets have how to keep them wrote right on them. I'm going back later to talk with the manager about it.