The one thing I'll give the petco is that I know the girl who works in the reptile section. We're friends and she's in charge of what goes in and out of the store. They keep their reptiles in mostly good condition. I say that because obviously they keep more than one to the cage, but other then that they're good. She feeds them all frozen thawed and if they wont take frozen thawed for 4 weeks, the 5th week they offer live and if the snake takes live, it's adopted out for free as a non-ft-eater. Also none of the ball pythons had visible mites and she said that they had a rate snake come in with mites but it has been quarantined and has not come anywhere near the other animals.


I actually have applied to work at that petco a few times because I like how nice it is compared to the others so I'm still considering. The only thing I'm wondering is obviously the prices change from year to year, but what was an average price for a banded as that would have something to do with my choice