My first visit to Petco

[Eversolulu]

2.79/mouse. Rats are 6.99/9.99/16.99. That's at Petco, they're actually decent but the cost of rats and mice is, in my opinion, high. And mice are like 7.99 for 3 F/T.

That is really expensive, there's a place called Scales n' Tails around where I live and they sell it for much cheaper, f/t med rats run about 2.50 per rat.

[Oxylepy]

Oh, and BPs are 79.99 and they keep about 6 in there, about hatchling size, thin, but they never really look dehydrated, though they have no hides. Red tails are rare but 169.99 and usually look pretty good.

The prices arent as high as other places around here for snakes and from time to time Petco sells BPs for 29.99

[EvesFriend]

Oh I completely agree that not all stores are the same. The Petsmart near my house is great, the guy that takes care of them own ball pythons and king snakes and corn snakes along with other reptiles. I learned a lot from him when I first got my ball python. All we can do I guess is to make sure that abuse doesn't happen whenever we run across something like this. I'm not judging Petco as a corporation, but at that store, even if I didn't know anything about ball pythons, it would still be very obvious that something is seriously wrong with those balls.

I'm not even gonna lie, when I saw your ball in that pic I thought the thing was way way too skinny. I guess you prove your point.

[EvesFriend]

Oh, and BPs are 79.99 and they keep about 6 in there, about hatchling size, thin, but they never really look dehydrated, though they have no hides. Red tails are rare but 169.99 and usually look pretty good.

The prices arent as high as other places around here for snakes and from time to time Petco sells BPs for 29.99

Yeah, $79 is how much we sell them for here but recently there was a sale where you could get them for $29.

Also, we ALWAYS have red tails, usually for $159 -- recently we had a 50% off all reptile sale that brought them to around 80 bucks. I am still debating on getting one, red tails look awesome.

[Oxylepy]

They do but the only one I want is:

http://www.boaconstrictorforsale.com...orph-Ghost.php

A ghost that looks like that. Amazing. Anyway...

It really does depends on the store, their management, and whoever controls their reptile section. At the one Petco I go to their fish guy knows a lot about snakes, has like 3 BPs and knows how to take care of them. Of course he isnt in the reptile department...

[EvesFriend]

^^^ that is one cool lookin snake