Quote Originally Posted by meowmeowkazoo View Post
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.
That is definitely the most common issue I see in pet stores (bad sheds). The store I bought from sells captive bred (again, probably due to the guy they had working there), but not all do. Some of the stores readily post what they are selling on the cage cards, others you have to ask.