That price was similar to other herp stores in the area. I did see them cheever online, tho. Nothing about that price surprises me around here. It's *Boca* afterall, where even McDonald's has valet parking.
I'm back from the herp store. I left the snakes in the car. I was already on the road when I realized what they had was mites. They would not have let me enter with snakes full of mites anyway ( I asked ). As is usual for them on the weekends, they were swamped and today also short staffed. He still answered all my questions. Said hoppers were too small and that I should be giving them mice. No surprise there. So I got 4 mice.
I asked about the cannibalism. Btw, the main guy over there is no a teenager. He's either the store owner or manager. Late 30's, early 40's. I think he actually sleeps with the snakes at night (joke).
I asked about housing them together again. And again he said it was fine. I told them I had read about the cannibalism. He said yes, he knows, but it's very rare and he's never seen it happen with ball pythons.
He was going to make me a batch of their in-store solution for mites, but I declined. He seemed way too busy and there were 4 others waiting on him. I'll just order the PAM online.
I'm going to email him a link to the page about cannibalism. Maybe he really just doesn't know. Whatever. Not my problem.
So I'm siting here watching the snakes completely ignore the mice. Is it common for them to refuse to eat when they have mites? They usually jump on the food immediately after I put them in.
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