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[PhoenixGate]

And one fully soaking in the water-- not a good sign.

Can't imagine the surprise someone uneducated might get when they buy that "ball python" and it grows to 15-20 feet....

This is honestly why I would love to open a small pet store someday. I could have one staffed by people who knew what they were talking about and could provide real information to people walking in off the street. A lack of knowledge in my opinion is the number one reason so many snakes suffer from inadequate conditions.

[Coluber42]

My first job was at a pet store. There were often multiple snakes housed together, whether of the same species or not (although at least they were generally around the same size). There were a handful of us teenage flunkies who worked there, some more sensible than others. One day, there was a tank with three snakes in it, and a kid who'd been instructed to feed them tossed three mice in there. Predictably, two of them got wrapped around the same mouse (or rat, I don't really remember), and I got the job of separating them. It was no easy task, and I just remember thinking how glad I was that one was a large-ish rat snake and one was a young boa, because if they'd been the same color it would have been much more difficult. In the end, one got the rodent and the other got the skin off the rodent's tail.

Don't worry though, that pet store has been out of business for at least 16 years.