Quote Originally Posted by alan12013 View Post
I wish I had access to some imports I'm nuts though as I always have to check out the normals in the pet stores for markers and unique patterns. So far only 1 has even remotely made me think something was strange. The flames looked like there was a pattern in the back ground. Hard to explain but it's like the tattoos that have a monster ripping through the flesh, its 2D but looks like it should be 3d.
It's pretty hard to find something special in wild caught animals in store, usually the importer (and his workers and friends lol) have a good look at the babies before they leave the wholesaler's shop. My friend always puts them in a NIX bath when they arrive, and we have to go trough them to pick the ticks off of them and get the dead ones out. Importing any animals over sea always has a lot of loses, like for uromastyx and chameleons you can have up to 75% loses if they took a long time to travel.

You need a good stomach if you want to be in a wholesaler's warehouse when they open new shipments, specially when you're an animal lover. I always want to save all of them, I could not do that work myself.