Petsmart babies

[Mr.Spence]

What prices could I find a butter/lesser for at a reptile show? I don't have a car or anyone who would want to take me to one so it's really hard to get to reptile shows. I know Lubbock hosts a repticon but for basically half a year I've been checking the website and it still says the date for the next one is "TBA"

Repticon Lubbock didn't seem to go real well. I wouldn't expect them back in Lubbock anytime soon honestly. Other than that there really hasn't been any shows local to the Lubbock area. NARBC Arlington is always a good show but that's about 4.5 hour drive. There will be a new show happening in Amarillo the last weekend of April and that will be the closest. As well they have been talking about going to Lubbock soon but no dates yet. Are you solely looking for a Lesser?

[cristacake]

I called a petsmart to ask if they had hopper mice. The lady on the phone said no, they only have regular mice, not any particular kind. I tried to explain what I meant, but she just seemed confused by the question.

They do sell reptiles at that store, too.

Yes, I have encountered a problem in the past with asking over the phone whether they had fuzzy rats, and the employee telling me that fuzzies are a kind of mice.

I'm not particularly interested in putting stores on a blacklist because a particular employee didn't know the ins and outs of every brand of food they keep in their store, especially since Arctic Mice doesn't cary anything called hoppers, crawlers, weaned, etc. The BPs I saw at this store were being adequately taken care of, they were housed separately, and the humidity seemed to be good in spite of them using analog hygrometers.

[cristacake]

Repticon Lubbock didn't seem to go real well. I wouldn't expect them back in Lubbock anytime soon honestly. Other than that there really hasn't been any shows local to the Lubbock area. NARBC Arlington is always a good show but that's about 4.5 hour drive. There will be a new show happening in Amarillo the last weekend of April and that will be the closest. As well they have been talking about going to Lubbock soon but no dates yet. Are you solely looking for a Lesser?

Thanks for the heads up. I moved to Lubbock I think about 2 weeks after the last Lubbock repticon so I totally missed out on it and I don't know anyone here who's interested so I couldn't ask anything about it.

I'm actually not actively looking per se, or I would order online like I did with Donuts, but I saw this kid in the store that's about 15 minutes away (Uber distance, yay!) and considered it. It seems like a pretty vibrant lessers compared to others I've seen in person that were a little more gray so I thought it might be worth it.

[PitOnTheProwl]

I called a petsmart to ask if they had hopper mice. The lady on the phone said no, they only have regular mice, not any particular kind. I tried to explain what I meant, but she just seemed confused by the question.

They do sell reptiles at that store, too.

But they don't sell live feeders. You would have had to specify frozen is you want sized feeders.

[PitOnTheProwl]

Remember you pay for quality too.
I have seen males for $50 to $100 and females for $100 to $150.
There are so many out there, just find one that grabs your eye.

[Jordan H]

Remember you pay for quality too.
I have seen males for $50 to $100 and females for $100 to $150.
There are so many out there, just find one that grabs your eye.

This, all everybody wants now days is the cheapest thing. Drives me crazy!!!!!!

[StillBP]

I too have to say that people always look for the cheapest thing they can find. I bought my enchi extreamly cheap but he is still a beautiful enchi not a lower quality one that you would expect for what i paid. You need to balance cost with quality. Dont buy the cheap low quality but a nice snake that you find attractive at a good price now that is the one you buy

[cristacake]

Hmm. I know I didn't get great pictures, but is this BP I posted a good quality or not? The colors seem good but I don't know anything else to look for in the butter/lesser gene. Is there an ideal pattern, or eye color or something?

[PitOnTheProwl]

This male has given me some great looking offspring.


2015 female


2015 male

[cristacake]

Pit, thank you for the photo references, that's very helpful! Your animals are beautiful.

So am I looking for brightness, contrast, and cleanness of pattern? I notice the flames/blushing on that first male is pretty much all over the body and basically covers the dark pattern entirely. Was he darker when he was young, like the other two, or pretty much that golden from the start?

I think I'm going to go back to that Petsmart and look at the BP again with a more scrutinizing eye and take pictures of it under the more normal lighting of the store rather than in its cage with the red bulb interfering.