I don't buy from pet stores just because I really hate the way that ball pythons are imported. I don't want to support it. While I agree that imports have given us some amazing genes to work with, one of the reasons I breed is to help reduce the need to take these animals from the wild.

That being said, today I was at Petco, and their baby balls were going through a bad shed. I think humidity is a foreign concept to most pet store employees. The Petco I went to back in Utah even had the humidity gauge upside down.