Yeah. I always am drawn to walk down Petsmart's reptile aisle, but usually I just end up seeing the same, overpriced, pointless items. In particular, I strongly dislike most of ZooMed's "husbandry" products. A lot of it is completely unnecessary, like the shedding aid stuff. And then some of their things can even be dangerous, like the non-regulated UTHs.

Why in the world are they still making this useless crap? Obviously because people are buying it, thinking it's well-made or necessary. So yes, I do think we need to spread some general awareness about the bad products marketed toward reptile owners.

However, what really peeves me is that these companies aren't selling their crap out of ignorance. Most of them have quite a few good products, and yet they continue selling the dumb ones. ZooMed and Exo Terra sell great-looking caves, bowls, and those neat display terrariums; however, both also sell things like: faulty dial thermometers, heat rocks, heat caves, water conditioner (lol), and giant snake hooks for "taming" your ball python. Two or three nearly identical companies seem to have a monopoly on Petco and Petsmart's reptile departments, and instead of using that to advocate and facilitate proper reptile husbandry, they use it to deceive and make a profit.

...And don't even get me started on Arctic Mice brand feeders.