Hey I am the original poster of the thread you mentioned. The water dish wasn't just knocked over and empty, they purposely flipped the water dish over onto the other side. At Petco they do this to all of the "empty" tanks. But sadly this tank wasn't empty.
It had no hides, no fake plants, nothing. Just an emptied and flipped over water dish, and a little aspen. It was like they were getting ready to switch the tank to another animal and they forgot they had a corn snake left alive in there.
But I agree with your post. Good post![]()