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Petsmart Steal!

Bad lighting on a camera phone putting in yellow drowning that is not normally there. Sorry.
 
PetSmart cracks me up did they have it labeled as a "fancy" corn snake? I'm going with either butter motley or caramel motley, good looking snake either way.
 
Labeled a fancy but there was a Christmas sale so what a steal. She is very coral colored and pink in natural lighting. My studio is over 115 years old an the lighting sucks. Either way she's a beautiful motley and is very happy now. She was considered a problem snake in the store because they don't know what the hell they're doing. No humidity and she couldn't shed. Once I bathed anb massaged her so she wasn't blind she became very social and friendly. I love saving snakes from pet stores.
 
Everyone seems to know that and I generally don't buy from chain stores. Sometimes I just can't stand by and watch them die a slow death. I cannot save the world but I can save one beautiful creature. The problem of ignorance will never go away but that's life. I do my best to teach workers when they are willing to learn. It's to bad there are rarely snakes at the pound. I'd love that.
 
I agree. Looks like a butter. They are very pretty. Our Petsmart always has Ghost labeled as normal.
 
for one snake you safe from the pet store, 10 come next... :( thats a never ending story

While I worked for PetSmart we went through 3 suppliers: Sandfire Dragon Ranch (who I routinely had to take newly received beardies to the vet for calcium gluconate due to early MBD), Lasco (Ty Park), the last year and a half of employment we received from Reptile Industries (Mark & Kim Bell...also known as ReptiMart). At times Reptile Industries is supplied (subcontracts out) by some of the vary breeders on this website in order to fulfill corn snake needs, and of which many of us on here own snakes from.

Food for though for those wishing to keep being negative. :twohammer :fullauto: :twoguns:

:cheers:

More tid bits...

I've seen:

Snow
Snow stripe (purchased it)
Snow motley (purchased it)
Anery type a
Albino
Albino motley
Motley
Caramel
Caramel motley
Normal
Normal on verge of okeetee ( I refuse to call it okeetee, unless our vendor labels as such)
Bloodred / diffused
Hypos
And I've heard of 1 butter

That is what I've seen come in in 2.5 years working for PetSmart here in Albuquerque.

Labeling wise corporate has restructured reptiles... Corn either come in as assorted (normals, albinos, or anery) and fancy (anything else Lasco sends which they are great so far about labeling)

Shaggy,

My best recommendation is to visit each PetSmart and find out who cares for the reptiles. At my store I'm the Pet Care Lead (quasi Pet Care Assistant Manager) and oversee all the sections, with 1 of my associates in charge of each section. Some stores it can be any and all associates in charge of all sections and thus consistency can be lacking. I'd also ask to see the feed charts. Policy is to have them on all snakes, stating when they arrived and what species/morph they are and are to be given to the Pet Parent (=customer) when a snake is sold. The vendors we have supplying my store with recent corns is great about labeling what exactly the corns are, be they the "assorted corns" or the "fancy corns". HOWEVER, a recent shipment that had an assorted corn labeled as a black corn (anerythristic) is actually a ghost (hypomelanistic anerythristic).

Assorted corns =
- albino, anerythritic (black corn), and normal

Fancy corns =
- motley (albino, snow, or normal), snow, striped (albino or snow), caramel, and diffused (labeled bloodred)

These are what I've seen in my area. I've also seen normal corns, under assorted, come in as hypos too.
 
While I worked for PetSmart we went through 3 suppliers: Sandfire Dragon Ranch (who I routinely had to take newly received beardies to the vet for calcium gluconate due to early MBD), Lasco (Ty Park), the last year and a half of employment we received from Reptile Industries (Mark & Kim Bell...also known as ReptiMart). At times Reptile Industries is supplied (subcontracts out) by some of the vary breeders on this website in order to fulfill corn snake needs, and of which many of us on here own snakes from.

Food for though for those wishing to keep being negative. :twohammer :fullauto: :twoguns:

:cheers:

More tid bits...

Excellent post!

Any insight on what sort of king snakes they get in?

I just saw a neat striped cailifornia kingsnake.
 
Excellent post!

Any insight on what sort of king snakes they get in?

I just saw a neat striped cailifornia kingsnake.

Prior to the restructuring of Pet Care, all my former area stores got were cal kings... Albino, albino banded, banana/aberrant, stripe, or banded. All non-albinos were black and whites, but I'd seen some muddy out to dark brown and an off-whitish yellow.

When the dept restructured, the kings got moved from assorted California kings to assorted kingsnakes. 9 times out of 10 they were still cal kings, but occasionally we'd get Florida kings/meansi/goini.
 
We dont get anything fun at my Petco, we get amel, anery, snow and normal that is about it...Nice pick up, we need fresher pictures!
 
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