? On buying a spider ball python

[cgator]

yea i do like it ... but i thought the asking price was a bit high .. i think if i find out its a female i might break out the bargain card and offer them like $225-$250 i buy alot of crap from them they owe me..lol

[J.Vandegrift]

$300 is not bad for if it's a female. You have to expect to pay a little extra from a pet store, but if it's a great looking female that is not a bad price at all IMO. Is this a store that specializes in reptiles? Seems kind of odd that no one there could sex a snake for you. Just a suggestion, but if you are going to really get into buying morphs and expanding your collection you should really learn to sex your snakes. I double check every snake I buy no matter who they come from and I have actually had a mis-sexed snake arrive on a couple occasions. Nothing could be worse than spending 2 years raising up a snake that you were sold as a female only to dicover at breeding time that it is a male. I have read about it happening many times.

[Crusader71]

All depends where you live, I paid $300 for my 09 Spider male

[cgator]

$300 is not bad for if it's a female. You have to expect to pay a little extra from a pet store, but if it's a great looking female that is not a bad price at all IMO. Is this a store that specializes in reptiles? Seems kind of odd that no one there could sex a snake for you. Just a suggestion, but if you are going to really get into buying morphs and expanding your collection you should really learn to sex your snakes. I double check every snake I buy no matter who they come from and I have actually had a mis-sexed snake arrive on a couple occasions. Nothing could be worse than spending 2 years raising up a snake that you were sold as a female only to dicover at breeding time that it is a male. I have read about it happening many times.

it is a actual pet store that sells everything ... they have a second floor with nothing but reptiles and specialist .. but they have a vet come in every wendsday and check out there reptiles and properly sex/probe all there new snakes.. i would pop it but they wont let me untill its purchased and i wont purchase something untill i know its sex

[ac5202002]

They are asking 230 for a female here. But, alas, I wanted a male.

[Karbon]

it is a actual pet store that sells everything ... they have a second floor with nothing but reptiles and specialist .. but they have a vet come in every wendsday and check out there reptiles and properly sex/probe all there new snakes.. i would pop it but they wont let me untill its purchased and i wont purchase something untill i know its sex

The vet part is cool, lets you know they take care of their animals.

Not popping it until its purchased though... is kind of weird. Never ran into that before.

I agree with you though, I wouldn't purchase it if I didn't know what sex it was.

[Big Gunns]

The vet part is cool, lets you know they take care of their animals.

Not popping it until its purchased though... is kind of weird. Never ran into that before.

I agree with you though, I wouldn't purchase it if I didn't know what sex it was.

BG agrees. If they can't sex your snake, they're not a very qualified reptile pet store. They should be able to sex it for you. If they don't want to, BG suspects they know it's a male.

[johnsonw84]

yeah id agree with what the others are saying find out what sex it is before you shell out that much, i just bought a proven breeder male spider from charlie at royalqpythons for 250.00, and you can definetly get deals at shows!! i got one coming up in a week il be lookin for a bumblebee or a superpastel.

[harm286]

WOW pythons have gone down from what im reading here gee you wont believe what I paid for my spider het ghost

[sho220]

(all spiders have wobbles btw, not one does NOT have it, just varying degrees)

I've had my male spider for 3+ years and he's never wobbled, spun, danced a jig or anything. He's produced two clutches, and a few babies have had a slight wobble during feeding time, but I've never seen it in him. The one male I have left from his clutch this year has never exhibited it either. So unless it's something that is going to show up later on down the road, I'd have to say you're wrong...unless you're "varying degree" includes none...