Thanks for the info and I do want to incorporate some sort of mite treatment to the quarantine but haven't researched it enough. That is an idea though that I would like to work on this week is putting together a procedure and putting it in writing. In a day or so after she digests her food a bit more I will check out the scales again. When I just looked at her for that head picture the dry patch of scales looked worse than I remember. Her humidity is currently right at 70 percent but I will increase ventilation so it's like my others which all stay at 60 percent. I know that 70 is too high but I was worried when I first brought her home but now I'm thinking I should drill more holes tonight :/ I don't want her getting an RI!
Perhaps we are talking about the same thing with "aspiring" breeders. I should have elaborated more. I run into it more with leopard geckos then with pythons. People will sell animals that they have previously purchased and pawn it off like they bred it and that you should check out their awesome collection where every thing they have is for sale... because they have no breeding plans or true interest in the animals. Like I said though mostly with leopard geckos. They buy them at petco on sale for 15 bucks then say it's a morph they "produced" and try selling it for 60. The people I've ran into in the ball python community are a bit more honest about it but I still find ones on CL that I know wanted to breed them but found out it was too hard and lost interest in the animals and therefore the care provided to the animals goes way down. Then those people try selling the animals at a cost that you would pay a real breeder for a quality version of the gene. They lost interest and are not caring for the animals so they should be at a much lower cost to get the animal into a good home fast instead of rotting away. They watch some youtube videos and think that keeping the animals in tubs is cool instead of a tank but they cut all the corners. I've gone to pick up some geckos and when I see the set ups I almost feel obligated to buy the animals. It is this type of person that does a lot of things that upset me. I don't have a problem with tubs and I use them but mine have 2 hides, water, consistent temperatures and humidity and regulated belly heat. That is what my problem with "aspiring" breeders is. I have my snakes as pets and treat them far different then these people that I've met.
I also want to add that I have no intentions of big bucks in snake breeding. I love the animals and have some ideas about what I think would make an awesome company down the road 5+ years from now.
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