Pet shops bless their lil souls sometimes just wanna make a sale or just have such general knowledge about snakes/reptiles they apply it to every darn species willy nilly.

You don't need that bulb and please oh please don't let them sell you a heat rock of any type (we bought one before we knew they are problematic...it now makes a lovely cage decoration minus it's plug in cord....what a waste of cash!).

Best advice Ray for the pocketbook and the snake. Ask here what are basic cage needs and also do use the search function as there's tons of threads about what works and what doesn't or what is just more difficult to make work.

We have yet to purchase one thing from a pet store, other than the snake and it's weekly food.....everything else came from WalMart, Home Depot, Lowe's....this forum's good advice saved us a wasting a lot of cash and getting a huge amount of misinformation (and this is from a local pet store that I actually consider a good one as far as pet shops go).


~~Joanna~~