Petco sucks.

A little over a year ago I bought my first ball Python from Petco. humidity was at 20-30 percent for all the tanks, and they told me this was normal and that they would just bathe in their water bowl for shedding. they encouraged me to use aspen, and all kinds of other things that I later found out were terrible for my snake. I felt so bad that I didn’t do more research, but I also feel like they should’ve been more truthful/ trustworthy considering how much money I was spending. When I came on here for advice I was told off about what a crap snake owner I was, and I am now slowly making all the changes I need to one at a time but it’s hard because of how much money I wasted on products that would end up harming my baby’s health. I’ve since changed the substrate and upped the humidity in my snakes tank. My little guy is much healthier now that I’ve gotten advice from this Reddit, I still have a long way to go but I’m never going back to Petco for real advice or products. (Picture just because I want to show off my beautiful snake. This was when he was a baby.)

A little over a year ago I bought my first ball Python from Petco. humidity was at 20-30 percent for all the tanks, and they told me this was normal and that they would just bathe in their water bowl for shedding. they encouraged me to use aspen, and all kinds of other things that I later found out were terrible for my snake. I felt so bad that I didn’t do more research, but I also feel like they should’ve been more truthful/ trustworthy considering how much money I was spending. When I came on here for advice I was told off about what a crap snake owner I was, and I am now slowly making all the changes I need to one at a time but it’s hard because of how much money I wasted on products that would end up harming my baby’s health. I’ve since changed the substrate and upped the humidity in my snakes tank. My little guy is much healthier now that I’ve gotten advice from this Reddit, I still have a long way to go but I’m never going back to Petco for real advice or products. (Picture just because I want to show off my beautiful snake. This was when he was a baby.)