I saw the cutest baby corn snake at Petco today, but the price was $80.99... seems a little steep to me. Is this the norm? Pic related, but not him.
normal for a big commercial pet store.corn snakes are so common, you could get one at a reptile show for like $20.
Or you can get one from your redneck relatives for free.
that is way overpriced especially for a baby corn. You could get an adult corn for that price.corn snakes suck though. i never had much success with the babies.king snakes on the other hand i've had a much easier time raising. additionally they are cooler because they will eat the corn snake.
>>128556Why do they suck? Any specific reason or did you just not have good luck with them? And I found baby corns at a different Petco for around $40, which I figure is about as much I'd expect to pay online, since shipping starts at $35 for overnight.I mainly wanted a corn snake because they're a step up from garters and they don't grow to be all that big - kings tend to be larger, right? Seeing as they'd eat the corns and all... I'd generally not want a snake that'd need more than a 10- or 20-gallon tank as an adult.
When it comes to corns (like many snake species), rare or unusual colour variations can cost considerably more than a "normal" colour specimen. For example, a lavender or pewter corn can cost anywhere from one to two hundred dollars, while a regular-coloured specimen shouldn't be more than forty bucks.
The $80 one seemed like a normal color to me, based on the little research I did on morphs. In any case, the base color was a light gray/tan, with dark brown/amber patches, with small orange spots in between.
i work for petco as my stores reptile specialist. our assorted baby corns (we usually get in anethyristic, albino, etc) are 40
If you want a healthy animal that's gonna live, don't buy it from petco.Even the pleco I got from petco died.
>>128873I agree. I got my first leopard gecko there and it died in a week.
>>128873>>128874depends entirely on the individual store. talk to your stores reptile specialist. if they don't seem like they know shit then obviously don't buy something from them. I quarantine all the reptiles we get in from our supplier and only put the healthy ones on the floor. I'm currently treating an agama and a baby savannah at my house that came in looking ragid (fungal infection on the agama, mouth rot on the monitor). I also take time to handfeed each reptile and handle them to make them more tame, so don't make generalizations that every petco sucks
>>129175My specialist seemed pretty knowledgeable, and I took home a baby corn three nights ago. Named him Tic-Tac, and fed him a pinky for the first time today. He seems to be doing pretty well, so I'm glad I got him where I did ^_^
Petco is typically where the pets go..... to die Die DIE DIE