The universe hates me, I swear!
Dec. 5th, 2007 11:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bladesparkSo I found my xenopeltis. Glee and joy and happy. But you know, better do all the sensible things. Let's ask the seller a few questions, lets check the reptile communities for this guy's reputation, all that jazz...
*sigh* Turns out the fellow with my xenopeltis is a horrible businessperson. There's a thread on the fauna Board Of Inquiry about him, where he ripped off several people, or so they claim, and he's in the thread, throwing around insults and refusing to answer people's questions, and making wild claims, and just generally behaving childishly. Nobody said he'd ripped them off on a snake he already had in stock, it was mostly getting in new snakes special, or refusing to pay his importers, or other such large transactions, so it's possible my small order would be happily filled, but still...
And then there's his response (it was prompt, I'll give him that!) to my questions about parasites, in which he said that xenopeltis don't react well to the medication, so he doesn't medicate them unless they show symptoms. Something like 99% of wild caught snakes have parasites. Treating them for it is totally standard, and I have a hard time picturing the medication being that harmful. He should just admit he's too cheap to spring for it. At $45 a snake, I'd take that excuse better than I'd take some bs about the medication being dangerous. Oh and he says he's never even heard of them being captive bred, so either he's not bothered to reserach the species at all, or he's just trying to pressure me into thinking he's my sole source.
Meh.
*sigh* Turns out the fellow with my xenopeltis is a horrible businessperson. There's a thread on the fauna Board Of Inquiry about him, where he ripped off several people, or so they claim, and he's in the thread, throwing around insults and refusing to answer people's questions, and making wild claims, and just generally behaving childishly. Nobody said he'd ripped them off on a snake he already had in stock, it was mostly getting in new snakes special, or refusing to pay his importers, or other such large transactions, so it's possible my small order would be happily filled, but still...
And then there's his response (it was prompt, I'll give him that!) to my questions about parasites, in which he said that xenopeltis don't react well to the medication, so he doesn't medicate them unless they show symptoms. Something like 99% of wild caught snakes have parasites. Treating them for it is totally standard, and I have a hard time picturing the medication being that harmful. He should just admit he's too cheap to spring for it. At $45 a snake, I'd take that excuse better than I'd take some bs about the medication being dangerous. Oh and he says he's never even heard of them being captive bred, so either he's not bothered to reserach the species at all, or he's just trying to pressure me into thinking he's my sole source.
Meh.
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