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07-22-11, 11:16 PM
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thanks pet store!
So shortly after I picked up my carpets at a specialty store near me the green tree python I was looking at passed away....
Now I hve been tripping trying to figue out how my snakes got mites. Today while I was picking up feeders I talked to the shop owner and asked him how the gtp passed..
Turns out it had mites (which mine also got, they were in the same cage display up front) so they took it in back and put it in a cup with some **** to treat mites and only put one hole in the cup which killed it....
So my first gtp I wanted gave my carpets mites and then was killed off....
I'm officially done with pet stores 
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07-22-11, 11:20 PM
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Re: thanks pet store!
If you had any bills associated with your treatment of mites due to the pet stores contamination then maybe you can have them reimburse you, unless your sales contract says otherwise. After all, all animals for sale have to been in healthy condition prior to selling them.
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07-22-11, 11:46 PM
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Re: thanks pet store!
Pet shops generally suck, but you can get good deals 
Friend got a mohave BP as a normal for 80$, adult male.
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07-22-11, 11:49 PM
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Re: thanks pet store!
Well so far the only bill is the $16 for nix....if it turns into a vet visit I'm gonna be very livid and posting the shop name n every snake forum I'm on
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0.2 Caramel Jag /0.1 Caramel / 1.0 Granite / 1.0 Caramel Tiger Jag / 1.0 Caramel Zebra / 1.0 Rockhampton
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07-23-11, 07:48 AM
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Re: thanks pet store!
that does suck man, sorry, but not all pet stores are bad , just most of them!
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07-23-11, 07:49 AM
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Re: thanks pet store!
Its understood that pet stores suck.
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07-23-11, 08:00 AM
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Re: thanks pet store!
Thats why i get my snakes from good breeders, all the snake i got from pet stores need a little TLC. But i have to say i like going into them because sometimes you find great deals like i got one of my hypo boas for a normal boa price($99) back in the day when hypos was about 250.
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07-23-11, 08:42 AM
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Re: thanks pet store!
alittle tlc when buying from a pet shop can be understandable, especially if they dont specialize in reptiles as they will only know the very minimum and basic knowledge and some dont even know that.
however that is bad, usually mites can be treated easily, i have common house spiders that find there way into and share my snake tanks and so far i have no mites what so ever and the spiders dont bother the snakes.
you could try puting some common house spiders in with the snakes as the spiders will eat the mites off the snakes, but that is just a suggestion though.
good luck getting rid of the mites
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07-23-11, 08:45 AM
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Re: thanks pet store!
I'm not sure if that would actually work, how are they getting in btw?
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07-23-11, 08:51 AM
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Re: thanks pet store!
Even if it did work, I'd rather put my trust into NIX, then spiders who may or may not decide to finish the job.
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07-23-11, 09:01 AM
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Re: thanks pet store!
Ilovemypets1988, you have no mites simply because you have not got mites yet. Not because of the house spiders. Hypoaspis miles will eat snake mites though....
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07-23-11, 10:05 AM
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Re: thanks pet store!
Yah if I was buying from a pet store like petland/petsmart/petco or something like that id expect it 100% but this is a specialty shop where 90% of the store is snakes from all sorts of corn and kings to green anacondas and some burm and retics
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07-23-11, 10:20 AM
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Re: thanks pet store!
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Originally Posted by forkedtongue
Yah if I was buying from a pet store like petland/petsmart/petco or something like that id expect it 100% but this is a specialty shop where 90% of the store is snakes from all sorts of corn and kings to green anacondas and some burm and retics
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Which means most of their snake most likely have mites and the don't quarantine properly.
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07-23-11, 10:41 AM
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Re: thanks pet store!
the spiders get in through the gap in the sliding glass front im guessing, i dont mind, they aint causing any problems.
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07-23-11, 10:56 AM
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Re: thanks pet store!
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Originally Posted by marionsclan
If you had any bills associated with your treatment of mites due to the pet stores contamination then maybe you can have them reimburse you.
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In a Utopian world maybe, but good luck here.. sorry to sound so negative, but I hate most pet stores, and they are usually run by cretins.
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