i'd like a gtp, but dont have the space for a gtp setup
regarding the "poor keeping" of the pet shop, snakes don't need a light source, and pet shops will only feed them the minimum fortnightly, atleast the petshops (big names) ive been to, to keep costs down, as they generally dont breed their own but use the stuff they buy from breeders etc
Ok, I might clarify my comment.
I walked into a pet store WHO DONT specialise in reptiles. They sell fish and birds.
Years ago they sold reptiles and had people in store who knew Herp.
Unfortunately reptiles aren't big in our area, so they now only specialise in birds and fish, although they still have their reptile licence to trade.
3 years ago they sold a woman and her 2 little boys this coastal.
They got bored of it. When I say it had no light source, this was NOT AT THE PET SHOP
The man who worked there, said that the mum called the guy to come to her house to pick up the Coastal because her boys are over it, they don't feed it and it had no warmth or light. When the pet shop guy went to their house, he said it was in a tiny enclosure with no light or heat source and was looking hungry.
He fed it in the store a small wearner rat, which it took. Its 2 meters long and he felt it was a small feed for a 2 mtr python.
He has been thawing rats and trying to feed it, but he wasn't taking it. As they have no other snakes in the store, the rats after being thawed and rejected by the coastal were going into the bin.
He had it in store for 2 weeks with no interest from anyone and only took that 1 weaner in that time. When I walked in to buy pinkies for my albino and spotted, he said, ‘want a coastal for barely anything. We aren't set up to look after him, and my current staff have never even seen a snake close up because they are new and specialise in birds, and won't touch it or clean out cage, give water etc’. He says, 'handles like a dream but won't eat much and was kept in shocking conditions when I got him from the customers house'. The woman gave it back to the pet shop for free, and then I bought him for $50 and took on the challenge to look after him. I already had a ground dweller set up I inherited from HerpShop friends.
Hope this makes more sense about my comment, as I didn't mean to open a can of worms about feeding frequency and light source
Also the guy who sold me the snake, knows a little but considers himself a novice also.
[doublepost=1526471171,1526470215][/doublepost]Oh, wait, here you go Cris.
A pic without my horrible head...
I have had them all for only a week.
So I took a snap or two when I first got them and am trying to let them settle and not over handle and take them out of their homes just for a pic, especially green boy, poor guy suffered enough, 7 hours in transit from QLD to MELB this week.
Freezing here in Melb. Can't wait to make them some basking branches so in Spring / Summer I can take them outside to photograph them properly.