Guess what I found at Pet Supplies Plus?

A female pastel ball python mingling with normals. I tried to talk them down in price because she hasn't fed once since being in their store. They said "the lighter one hasn't eaten yet because the bulbs aren't working" but the manager wasn't there to discuss lowering the price and I didn't want to wait a couple of days to go back and haggle. I'll post pics of her when I'm not feeling so so lazy. lol



*Edit*

Okay, I got off my lazy ass and took some pics. They don't do her justice because I'm rather lousy with a camera.




Playing peek-a-boo


Up close


With one of my normal babies for comparison.

With one of my normal babies for comparison.

Very pretty Sandy!!

wow!! awesome find! They generally have decent prices, questionable living conditions though

Ehatcher wrote:

wow!! awesome find! They generally have decent prices, questionable living conditions though

Yeah, I'm not impressed by the housing for the snakes there but the prices are fairly reasonable. I paid $49 for her.

AWESOME find!!!!

Just adding another pic.. I may do this periodically just so I can see her coloration progress with age.

I renamed this snake "Makalo". I'm told it's an African word meaning surprise. My little girl, as it turns out, is actually a budding little man.

Grrr.. Oh well.. I need to look harder, apparently. I like him all the same. Just means I'll have two pastel males after the new guy can be shipped to me. It's good to have options, right?

You ought to go back tell them that they should lower the price . . . it was a BOY not a GIRL, they had missexed him! LOL

Seriously though, $49 is not a bad price! Drop a live feeder in for a feeding or two, and I bet HE will start taking them.

I finally got a set of probes myself from reptilebasics.com, and probed the one girl I was questionable about on sex (it was my first year popping, and I wanted to be sure I was right). She is indeed a girl. Thanks much to Sandy for showing me how to probe! You rock, Sandy!

PythonPassion wrote:

You ought to go back tell them that they should lower the price . . . it was a BOY not a GIRL, they had missexed him! LOL

Seriously though, $49 is not a bad price! Drop a live feeder in for a feeding or two, and I bet HE will start taking them.

I finally got a set of probes myself from reptilebasics.com, and probed the one girl I was questionable about on sex (it was my first year popping, and I wanted to be sure I was right). She is indeed a girl. Thanks much to Sandy for showing me how to probe! You rock, Sandy!

Oh I had no trouble at all getting HIM to take a meal shortly after getting HIM home. lol

That store has a strict "no live food" policy when it comes to their snakes, apparently, and some of them probably need some help getting adjusted to the frozen foods offered. That's my guess anyway. Everytime I'm in there and hear someone mention a particular snake isn't eating, I tell them to try a live feeder and see if that doesn't get its interest. The manager there won't allow it.

Glad to help you get the hang of probing! It's really not that difficult after you figure out how best to insert. That was always my problem in the beginning and if the snake was squirmy it just made it all the more difficult.

congrats on the nice find