Quote Originally Posted by Archimedes View Post
Most of us here will always recommend buying from a breeder, as it not only supports the growth of the hobby, but produces healthier, higher-quality animals. You can find excellent normals within a 50-dollar budget, and since it sounds like you're looking for something pet-quality rather than breeder quality, you may be able to find a couple of morphs within your price range too.

There will be a rundown of prey size on the caresheet. No one feeds pinkies to their ball pythons except perhaps as a first meal out of the egg, or during a health issue. A good rule of thumb is weighing your snake, and then feeding it prey that weighs 10-15% of its body weight. For example, a 100-gram snake would get a 10-15 gram prey.

Most snakes from a good breeder will come reliably sexed, but a herp veterinarian can also determine the sex of your python, plus there are plenty of videos out there on sexing your python at home. I wouldn't recommend doing it though until you've seen someone else do it in person and can mimic their methods, there's just too much risk in hurting the snake.

Good questions so far!
Yeah I was looking at BHB reptiles and saw some cool looking normals for 40 bucks but the thing is the shipping to my place is $40 and I feel that I could get a cool morph for $80 that $80 for a normal, do you understand what I'm getting to? The only pet store I know are petco and petsmart also there is a pet express and I seen some cool morphs there before but not sure if I could trust them.